Big Blue Goes Green
According to MSNBC, IBM has pledged to invest $1 billion a year on ‘green’ projects while also doubling the energy efficiency of its big computer systems by 2010.
This comes on the heels of other big corporations making that leap - Citigroup, GM and News Corp have all made similar pronouncements in recent past.
IBM’s move is expected to save $500 million over the next three years, meaning their bottom line and the environment are winning here.
IBM will promise to double the computing capacity of its data centres, which take up 8m sq ft in hundreds of locations around the world, within three years without increasing their power consumption. The company estimates the initiative would help save 5bn kilowatt energy hours per year – enough to heat 370,000 homes for one winter, according to experts.
Nathan was thinking green at 8:53 AM on May 10, 2007
Comments are sorta kinda broken right now. We're working on it but to save energy can only work in daytime when solar system is at peak performance.
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