IBM and the Defense department join to create less power hungry PCs
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on August 7, 2002 at 2:16:56 PM
Once and awhile something useful comes out of the works.
That's alot of KWs.
Quote
The quest for higher performance can cost companies dearly. IBM, citing numbers compiled from third parties, said that about 25 percent of a company's data-center budget goes to providing electricity to run and cool computers. Overall, about 10 percent of the electricity consumed in North America goes to support information technology systems, according to a U.S. Energy Department study cited by Big Blue.
Without consumption curbs, the amount of energy used to power and then cool computing equipment will increase exponentially, IBM executives said.
That's alot of KWs.