Energy Efficiency Saves IT Industry $2B Annually
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative today announced that energy efficiency efforts from the global IT industry had resulting in huge cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and big savings on energy bills. Read More
NetApp Scores First-Ever Energy Star Label for Data Centers
One month after the new green data center certification opened for business, the company has become the first to earn the label for its RTP data center, with a score of 99 out of a possible 100. Read More
Obama Orders Federal Data Center Consolidation, Expects $3B in Savings
In a memorandum signed last week, the president ordered all federal agencies to halt the growth of their data centers, and to focus on consolidating and combining facilities within five years. Read More
eBay's Newest Data Center Uses Half the Energy, Aims for LEED Gold
The online retailer's 240,000 square foot building will have a PUE of 1.4, and will use 50 percent less energy than the average of all the other data centers it leases around the globe. Read More
Dell Laptop Packaging Ready for the Compost Bin
The bamboo packaging that Dell is using to cushion laptops has been certified compostable. Read More
Win a New HP LaserJet Printer for Your Small Business
HP is announcing new additions to its LaserJet Pro line of small, powerful printers, and GreenBiz.com is offering three printers as prizes in a new contest for its readers. Read More
PUE to Become Global Standard for Data Center Efficiency
The Green Grid today announced a global effort to develop an Energy Star-like rating for data center energy efficiency, using its popular power usage effectiveness ratio as the benchmark for green data centers. Read More
IBM Achieves First Full Phase-Out of Toxic Compounds
IBM has eliminated from its chip manufacturing processes the use of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), two compounds found to be bioaccumulative and persistent. Read More
Amazon.com Adds EPEAT Ratings to Product Listings
Amazon.com had added information on the EPEAT electronics ratings system to products that have met the environmental rating's criteria. Read More
Japan, U.S. Come out Tops In Use of Green IT for Emissions Reductions
A new ICT Sustainability Index released by IDC ranks the G20 countries on how well they've incorporated technologies from smart grid to teleworking that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5.8 gigatons by 2020. Read More