Intel and Google’s energy drive

Web search leader Google Inc. and semiconductor maker Intel Corp. launched a broad-based program on Tuesday to introduce more energy-efficient personal computers and server systems to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Called the “Climate Savers Computing Initiative,” the new program has signed on computer makers Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Lenovo Group Ltd., software maker Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and more than 25 environmental groups, companies and universities for the energy savings campaign.
More efficient computing could trim the use of electricity that now is being wasted as heat, which in turn, especially in large server centres, requires more power for air conditioning

.”Today, the average desktop PC wastes nearly half of its power and the average server wastes one-third of its power,” Holzle said.

New Zealand Herald