They may have faded into the background (some pretty convincingly), but all those those cell sites require a lot of power!In his new Pike Research report, “How Mobile Networks Can Cut Carbon” (subscription required), Clint Wheelock finds that with a…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, August 31
Here come AMD’s six-core, ultra-low-power Opteron EEs – BetaNews Today, as expected, the company is announcing stage 3 of its plan: the rollout of its first ultra-low-power six-core Opteron series, including the model 2419 EE, with 40 watts of…
Dell Releases 2009 CSR Report
Dell released its 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility Report (PDF) this week. Within are many statistics related to the IT giant’s work on the environmental front. Here are some of the highlights:Lower Carbon Emissions:Completed 88 projects to save 17 million kWh…
Green IT News Roundup: Thursday, August 27
A Key to Greener Data Centers: Smarter Storage – Reuters/Earth2Tech Data storage can account for up to 40 percent of the energy consumed by a data center. Yikes — but at the same time, it’s not hard to see why…
Dedupe, Thin Provisioning Molding the Future of Enterprise Storage
I recently chatted with Analytico’s Tom Trainer about his new GigaOM Pro report, “The Future of Data Center Storage” (subscription required) and wrote about some of the insights I gleaned for Earth2Tech (thanks Katie!). I was encouraged to find out…
Green IT News Roundup: Thursday, August 20
Why the Kindle Is Good for the Planet – Earth2Tech According to a fascinating report from the Cleantech Group, called The Environmental Impact of Amazon’s Kindle, one e-Book device on average can displace the buying of about 22.5 physical…
Green IT News Roundup: Tuesday, August 18
Experts debate Apple’s plans for huge NC data center – Ars Technica However, hosting all of that content in one location–especially in one that isn’t well situated to connect to multiple network backbones–suggests that the data center isn’t likely to…
Sony's Slimmer, Greener PS3
Sony today unveiled that the Playstation 3 Slim is a reality and that it will begin shipping in September. Not only is the new unit 32 percent smaller (fewer materials) it consumes 34 percent less electricity.Amazon is currently accepting PlayStation…
Danny Forster Designs LEED Gold Home
The host of Discovery Channel’s Build it Bigger, Danny Forster, designed a single family home that earned a LEED gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. He eschews pricey tech for the most part, relying instead on efficient design…
Linux Ships on a Third of Dell Netbooks
An interesting little factoid emerged today. According to David Finch, nearly a third of the netbooks sold by Dell ship with Linux, Ubuntu to be precise.OSNews reports:Even though Dell is only the fifth-largest manufacturer of netbooks in the world, it…
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