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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2015
The internet may seem to exist in the ether, but its plumbing includes a vast network of data centers, also known as server farms, which need power to function. In 2010, data centers represented 2% of all electricity use in the United States. Renewable energy will become the low-cost source in a growing list of locations.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 2, 2011
Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age. Talent, purpose, culture and creating meaning is the peopley work mostly viewed by the performance folks as "cost centers," or departments that exist only to manage legal risk. Nilofer Merchant is a corporate advisor and speaker on innovation methods.
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