Climate Savers –Top Tech & Starbucks launch effort to create energy-efficient computers
Among the tech companies involved are Google, Intel, Dell, HP, eBay, IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo. They joined efforts with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the longtime environmental-conscious Starbucks, to initiate this landmark effort.
The goal of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is “setting aggressive new targets for energy-efficient computers and components, and promoting the adoption of energy-efficient computers and power management tools worldwide.”
The companies supporting the initiative are committing to building energy-efficient products that meet or surpass the qualifications of the EPA’s Energy Star program, as well as requiring high-efficiency systems for the majority of their corporate desktop PCs and volume server purchases, and using power management tools on desktop PCs. The participants cite the environmental and economic needs for this new initiative. The senior vice president of operations of Google, Urs Holzle, stated that “the average desktop PC wastes nearly half of its power, and the average server wastes one-third of its power.”
“The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is setting a new 90 percent efficiency target for power supplies, which if achieved, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54 million tons per year—and save more that $5.5 billion in energy costs,” Holzle continued.
The complete list of supporters are: Intel, Google, AMD, Canonical, CITRIS, Coldwalt, Dell, Delta Electronics, eBay, EDS, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, Hipro, Hitachi, IBM, LANDesk, Lenovo, Linux Foundation, MIT, Microsoft, Natural Resources Defense Council, NEC, One Laptop Per Child, PG&E, Power-One, Quanta, Rackable Systems, Red Hat, Starbucks, Sun, Supermicro Computer, Ubuntu, Unisys, the EPA, University of Michigan, Verdiem Corporation, World Resources Institute, WWF, and Yahoo.
Posted by Kiki Namikas.
For more information, visit www.climatesaverscomputing.org
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