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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

Cars That Think

Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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Bloom Energy Debuts SOFC Fuel Cell System for Distributed Generation

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featured California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, General Colin Powell, and early customers including Bank of America; The Coca-Cola Company; Cox Enterprises; eBay; FedEx Express; Google; Staples; and Walmart. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy can trace its roots to the NASA Mars space program. The event was hosted at eBay Inc.,

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