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For much of the past year, the computer industry has been making nice about energy efficiency.
Ferocious competitors have joined a collaborative industry group — the Green Grid — to build awareness of the issue and forge agreements about energy-saving practices and standards.
Check out the DarkGreenPC to see what Zerofootprint is doing about designing better computers.
Once again, we’re very pleased by the powerful responses we’ve got to our original Black is the New Green blog and to the follow-up.
Once again, we’re very pleased by the powerful responses we’ve got to our original Black is the New Green blog and to the follow-up.
Let’s think for a moment about something we never notice – our screen savers. Around the world, right now, complex geometric shapes and patterns are bouncing around screens in empty offices and quiet suburban basements. Even when you’re gone for lunch, your screen saver labors on.
We’ve got a heap of responses to “Black is the New Green ,” (here and here ) and they tend to fall into three themes. The first is to commend the idea of making computers more energy efficient through power-saving software. The second is to suggest that much of what we suggest is already possible for anyone ...
It was only a matter of time, really. General Electric did it a few years ago, Wal-Mart began changing its tune last year, and so far this year at least a dozen more leading companies have also jumped on the bandwagon.
Data centre energy consumption consortium The Green Grid has been fast acquiring new members like Microsoft, Dell, APC, VMWare, Intel, and Novell that all hope to get green while pulling in the green. Here we examine what some of the new consortium’s members are up to, eco-wise.