That’s approximately the amount of power required to keep Google’s data centers running. As this NYT piece mentions, all those searches, Gmail accounts, YouTube videos and tons of other services continually absorb 260 million watts, or about a quarter of the output of one nuclear power plant. There are two important things to note from this […]
Infographic of the day: 1 data center = 25K homes
Cloud computing is taking the IT industry by storm but behind the technology are massive data centers that consume a lot of energy. How much? According to some of the opening stats in an infographic cooked up by ABB, a utility and industrial automation firm, the energy requirements of the world’s data centers are large […]
CES 2011 Green Watch: Green Plug debuts smart power supply tech
Green Plug is paving the way for smarter, more efficient power supplies and chargers with its new Green Power Processor (GPP). The startup is billing the tiny, system-on-chip (SoC) as a solution to analog power supplies that draw a constant amount of power regardless of whether the electronics make the best use of all that […]
Datacenter Operators Planning for Economy, Energy Efficiency
IT managers are feeling the economic pinch and they’re planning accordingly. Thirty-five percent of the 120 data center, facility and IT managers polled in Emerson Network Power’s Data Center Users Group (DCUG) survey have delayed plans to expand or build…
Intel Nehalem vs. AMD Shanghai… Fight!
DailyTech took a look at the marketing war of words between Intel and AMD in the server chip realm, specifically when it comes to the former’s Nehalem Xeon and the latter’s Shanghai Opteron. We all love a good fight, but…
About that Earth-killing Spam…
Yesterday, McAfee and ICF shocked us with data that exposed spam’s environmental impact. Jeremy Kaplan at Good Clean Tech isn’t buying it… Business users leave their PCs on all day regardless of whether they’ve finished sorting their inboxes, so…
Energy Monitoring Gadgets in Pics
Ecofriend has put together a nice little gallery of innovative energy monitoring systems. Some are concepts and design studies, but some like the homely yet awesome Kill-a-Watt are available and the Energy Hub pictured above is set to be…
