IBM launches $1B energy efficiency effort

IBM Corp. on Thursday said it is investing $1 billion US in lessening the impact its businesses have on the environment.

The technology giant said it is reallocating the funds to realize a 42 per cent decrease in its data centres’ energy consumption, avoiding some 5 billion kilowatt hours of new power use a year across the, on average, 25,000-square-foot facilities, as IBM seeks to double its computing capacity.


Project Big Green is to use the work of more than 850 experts in the effort to make the data centres more energy efficient, which the company says will result in savings equivalent to some 6,748.5 tons of carbon emissions.

…”The data centre energy crisis is inhibiting our clients’ business growth as they seek to access computing power,” said Mike Daniels, senior vice-president of IBM’s global technology services division.

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