electricity in news
Force.com breaks out to the web with Sites
News Linc Volt has created the 'Thinkin' Lincoln', which is a 1959 Lincoln Continental convertible that has been converted to run on a combination of electricity and compressed natural gas (CNG). Salesforce.com has launched... [04 Nov 2008]
Intel: Fresh air route to data centre cost slashing
News Intel estimated an annual cost reduction of approximately $143,000 for a small, 500kW data centre, based on electricity costs of eight cents per kWh. Fresh air could save millions in data centre cooling costs, Intel has... [19 Sep 2008]
Confused.com automates email handling
News Williams said the company would have found it difficult to cope with the volume of email responses it got following an email campaign around electricity pricing recently without the email management software in place. [10 Sep 2008]
Google digs deep for geothermal energy
News The move is part of Google.org's REC (Renewable Energy Less than Coal), an initiative with the goal of producing one gigawatt of electricity - larger than a typical coal-fired power plant - through renewable sources. [20 Aug 2008]
Dell hits carbon neutral target
News The target was met through improved energy efficiency at Dell's own facilities combined with green electricity purchases and investments in wind power in the US, China and India totalling 645 million kWh and creating... [06 Aug 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The Carbon Trust estimates that it consumes 15 per cent of the total electricity used in offices, expected to rise to 30 per cent by 2020, with around two-thirds of the energy consumed by office equipment being... [17 Jul 2008]
SAS becomes sun worshipper
News The company is aiming to have the farm running by the end of the year to produce electricity for its HQ and the local community. Business intelligence software company SAS is to build a solar electric power farm at its... [26 Jun 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Naturally, with at least hundreds of thousands of servers in operation and its data centres placed near power plants to cut electricity costs, Google is trying to get computing-equipment makers more excited about... [25 Jun 2008]
Indian tech companies on the move to tier two cities?
News The electricity and water tariffs are one of the lowest among all the states. In five years, 1.7 million jobs in the IT sector in India will move out of tier one cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune,... [02 Jun 2008]
UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change
News The announcement comes as a study by the centre-right think tank, Policy Exchange, said the government had missed 60 per cent of its green targets set since 1997, including providing five per cent of electricity from... [08 May 2008]
E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs
News By ensuring that monitors power down after a few minutes left idle, and by installing software to power down PC base units in the evening, he said the company was able to make savings of around 1,000 tonnes of CO2 last year, along with... [25 Apr 2008]
Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain
News One way is making use of holes in the ground already used by other utilities such as electricity and water. Fibre could be laid through the UK's sewer ducts to help speed up the rollout of super fast broadband to homes... [16 Apr 2008]
Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre
News John Killey, head of realty services for Citi, told an audience of IT and financial specialists at the Finexpo Green City event in London last week, that, although the organisation has seen energy consumption remain flat or even fall in... [14 Apr 2008]
Green carrots needed for IT chiefs
News But Quocirca research found less than one in five IT decision makers have responsibility for the electricity bill, with 54 per cent never made aware of it. He added, electricity costs are often... [19 Mar 2008]
Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall
News Plans to provide smart electricity meters for large and medium-sized businesses over the next five years. The technology industry has pledged to fight for a share of a public sector contract windfall the Chancellor of... [12 Mar 2008]
Keep updated for stories matching electricity in news via RSS
