power consumption in news
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Chipmakers have been applying lessons learned in mobile computing to servers in an effort to increase efficiency by lowering power consumption. Luis Barroso, a Google engineer who closely studies the company's power consumption, speaking at the O... [25 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News But he added the research shows how dramatically music consumption has changed, so a key challenge is to build a mutually beneficial partnership between the music industry and technology organisations. [16 Jun 2008]
Brics demand feature-packed mobiles
News Chia was announcing the release of a mobile TV-out processor targeted at emerging markets, which he claimed is more suitable for low-end devices than current similar processors because of its low-power consumption and ability to optimise low... [09 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News By March next year the company will upgrade 90 data centres worldwide, about 25 of which are in the UK, cutting power consumption by 60 per cent using fresh air cooling and AC-DC power conversion. BT will rely on wind farms to produce a quarter of... [03 Jun 2008]
Power down PCs to save millions, gov't told
News NightWatchman automatically shuts PCs down during non-working hours and can monitor daily PC power consumption and carbon emissions. In addition, the practice could save up to £10.2m annually in power costs if all government departments took it up. [22 May 2008]
EC backs tech for green future
News The Commission feels three areas should be focused on in this work: energy generation and distribution; monitoring of energy consumption in buildings; and moving to more energy efficient 'intelligent' lighting. [15 May 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News We realised that the majority of the consumption comes from the HQ side and we had a purpose-built building. But the biggest shift has been in computing, where water drawn from a local borehole will provide the constant cooling for its 600 servers... [09 May 2008]
CIOs are driving the green agenda
News And within that you can do a correlation between if you've got maybe 1,000 servers in your environment and 300 of them are being used by this particular application and it has this power consumption (because not every server has the same power... [01 May 2008]
IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?
News IBM has launched tools to reduce computer energy consumption as the company hopes to boost its business of selling power-saving technologies. The products, announced at an IBM business-partner conference in Los Angeles, are designed to measure... [01 May 2008]
E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs
News Although it may sound counter-intuitive, energy giant E.ON has been setting its sights on reducing the power consumption of its non-energy generating business. E.ON used simple formulae to calculate the energy cost and carbon emissions of its PC... [25 Apr 2008]
Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre
News However, he claimed that, when it is up and running, the addition of an energy-efficient facility will go some way to tackle the increasing overall power consumption of the group's IT infrastructure. John Killey, head of realty services for Citi... [14 Apr 2008]
Thin clients the route to skinny emissions?
News According to Dr Hartmut Pflaum of the Fraunhofer Institute: "Energy consumption, when in operation, was up to 50 per cent lower than for conventional PCs. Testing was conducted to compare the power demands and CO2 emissions of thin clients with... [28 Mar 2008]
Green carrots needed for IT chiefs
News And yet the way IT is managed doesn't really help in cutting the power consumption. There needs to be greater incentives for tech departments to become greener by reducing their overall energy consumption and carbon footprint. [19 Mar 2008]
Ballmer: Microsoft says the future's green
News He said: "The lowering of energy consumption is as important for us as new uses of software and IT for the environment. Speaking at the CeBit technology show in Hanover, the Microsoft boss described how the software maker is collaborating with... [06 Mar 2008]
Intel: Say hello to the Atom family…
News It incorporates a new low-power state, allowing it to essentially shut down in between processing tasks and limit power consumption. One - previously known as Silverthorne - is a low-power mobile processor destined for the next generation of mobile... [03 Mar 2008]
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