Technology Group Seeks to Save Power
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Google and Intel are leading a consortium of companies in an effort to reduce the amount of power wasted by personal computers.
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Firm may be facing greater difficulties than previously thought in getting hold of chips to power its high-end PCs.
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A list of the top companies working to cut energy consumption through their IT equipment and using technology to conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions.
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SMA has an inverter that keeps the solar system going even during a blackout.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light at a cost competitive with power from coal or natural gas. The challenges are formidable.
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SCIENTISTS have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead. In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone orlaptop computer without wires or cables.
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Relying on people to show up at a specific data center by a certain time to execute a recovery plan in the middle of a crisis reveals a certain lack of foresight. Consider an alternative -- keeping the lights on.
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The deployment of smart-grid technology in households could significantly reduce the need to build new power plants and trim consumersâ monthly utility bills.
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Surging data center power usage is building to a potential crisis, but there are many steps that IT managers can take today to start reducing power consumption without making a huge investment -- or sacrificing performance or availability.
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How non-green is your network? Energy saving has so far focused on PCs, servers and the like, but now networks have been fingered as major wasters of power. An industry group has claimed that Ethernet's poor use of energy could be wasting as much as $450m a year - or 5.8TW/h - in the US. And perhaps three times that much, worldwide.â¦
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Companies are giving up control of their electrical systems, and they are being paid to do it. The goal? To better manage the nationâs burdened power grid.
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For every kilowatt-hour of power that Internet-linked computers use, they save at least 10 times that amount, a recent study finds.
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The California grid operator is urging residents to conserve electricity on Tuesday after a small plane crash near San Diego damaged transmission lines, knocking some generating plants offline, a spokesman said.
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Energy executives whose organizations are pioneering the delivery of broadband-over-power-line services see potential in new consumer revenue streams and utility applications such as real-time grid monitoring.
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PowerEdge Energy Smart line saves on electricity bill, vendor says.
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The hardware networking company is trying to break out of the doldrums.
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The group's mandate is to figure out practical ways that customers can cut computing's environmental impact.