Microsoft to Slash its Water Impact in Quincy
Microsoft infrastructure existing wastewater treatment plant was built for water reuse plant in the local farming community food processing. The plant will filter the water used to cool the data center for Microsoft. Then they filter the water again before returning to the aquifer.
The City of Quincy plant modernization project reuse existing Microsoft as a system of industrial reuse has progressed in two phases. After the first phase, the system will generate approximately 400,000 gallons per day (150 million gallons per year) using wastewater effluent food processor. The second phase upgrade is projected to produce 2.5 to 3 million gallons per day (1 billion gallons per year), with about 20 percent being used by local industries and the remaining being used to recharge the aquifer around Quincy.
“We invested tens of millions of dollars to build our own water treatment plant,” said Christian Belady, General Manager of Data Center Advanced Development for Microsoft. “At the same time, we began a dialogue with the City of Quincy regarding a longer-term potential partnership that included the use of water discharged from the local large food processing plants.
“These companies use large amounts of potable water to wash and prepare many of the foods consumers purchase in local supermarkets,” Belady wrote in a blog post announcing the initiative. “By filtering that water after it is used by the food processing plants, we enabled a ‘reusable’ water source to use for our cooling needs. In addition, this eliminated our need for potable water, while also significantly recharging the supply returned to ground water with 80 percent of the treated water going back to the aquifer.”
Addressing Data Center Water UsageThe enormous volume of water required to cool high-density cloud computing server farms is making water management a growing priority for data center operators. Cloud data centers can contain hundreds of thousands of servers. All the heat from those servers is often managed through cooling towers in which hot waste water from the data center is cooled, with the heat being removed through evaporation.
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“These companies use large amounts of potable water to wash and prepare many of the foods consumers purchase in local supermarkets,” Belady wrote in a blog post announcing the initiative. “By filtering that water after it is used by the food processing
Why walk, bike or drive to the grocery store when you can visit the van down the street? In a few weeks, University of Illinois students will be able to pay a visit to the Illini Mini Market Express, a new business that is part-food truck, part-corner
A series of "family fun math nights" for elementary-age students will be held at Quincy grocery stores starting today, sponsored by the Regional Office of Education. Today's events are for students from Washington and Ellington schools.
“What the person outside the industry has to realized,” said Smith, “is that agriculture isn't just about a farmer making money and spending it at the grocery store.” He said, “Ag dollars reverberate through our entire economy.
Robert Paters, whose family owns a targeted 19th-century horse stable at 318 S. Quincy St., said he would welcome city recognition and protection for the property. The stable is believed to have once housed horses that local grocery store operators
Some Stores Freezing Out Ben & Jerry's New Flavor :: EDGE Boston
Ben & Jerry ice cream Schweddy Balls is too hot to handle for some supermarket chains. While the new limited edition flavor brought chuckles from fans of "Saturday Night Live" sketch on which it is based, some supermarket chains are not laughing and have been giving a cold shoulder.
The flavor featuring fudge-covered rum balls was absent from some grocery freezers since it was unveiled. The title was inspired by an innuendo-laced 1998 sketch featuring Alec Baldwin as Pete Schweddy baker, who promises, "No one can resist my Schweddy balls."
But apparently, some supermarket chains can and can not partisans and members of the group One Million Moms.
It's Mississippi-based organization mothers was to put pressure on retailers to keep balls Schweddy their freezers and encourage parents to ask the Vermont Ben & Jerry to stop production of the article, saying the name is nothing, but that locker room humor not suitable for young children.
Chain stores that have decided not to make the flavor is not to say that their decisions were influenced by the group One Million Moms, their own reservations about the name or other factors.
Suzi Robinson, a spokesman for stopping Quincy, Massachusetts, and the chain store, said that for reasons of ownership, the company does not disclose the reasons for decisions on what stores are doing and not to . She said they have a very strong relationship with Ben & Jerry, however, and its products are generally strong sellers.
"We have not received any complaints that we are not carrying this flavor. However, if we do get feedback from customers that they want, we will certainly revisit the decision," she said.
Messages were left Thursday spokesman for the Roche Bros. grocery store chains and Y, both based in Massachusetts, and Publix, which has dozens of sites in the southeastern United States, as whether they had decided to stock the flavor.