2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. Quotes

    1. “ At the end of the day, solving the climate change problem is more about transforming our energy systems than limiting greenhouse gas emissions. ”
      By Sally Benson

  4. Topics Mentioned


  1. IBM Says Green Spending Lets Companies Save Long Term

    Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 14 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

    1. IBM Says Green Spending Lets Companies Save Long Term IBM figures that for every dollar saved in energy drawn from the wall, a company saves £4 to £6 in operational costs as a result. If anybody still questions the bottom-line dollar value to a corporation of saving energy in the data centre, they should think about this: IBM figures that for every dollar saved in energy drawn from the wall, a company saves $6 (£4) to $8 in operational costs as a result. Thus stated IBM Vice President of IT Optimization Rich Lechner during a SDForum conference titled "The State of Clean Energy: Global Challenges and Opportunities," hosted by AMD at its Sunnyvale campus. "We've found that our [data centre] customers save an average of about 40 percent on their power and cooling costs after they work with us [on upgrades]," Lechner said. "We're talking about savings we have noted from more than 3,000 customers around ... (Read Full Article)

      Bookmark or Share this article

    Login to comment.