Google, Intel joined by others in Green Revolution
Both Google and Intel have joined a bunch of other IT companies in what could be a major boost to the effort to reduce carbon emissions by computers. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is setting a new 90 per cent efficiency target for power supplies which, if achieved, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54m tonnes per year – and save more than $5.5bn in energy costs.
They are joined by major companies like IBM, Microsoft, Dell, HP to name a few. If this group is able to reach their target then they would have, atleast theoretically, have removed the equivalent of 11 million cars’ worth of emissions. This move also improves the brand image of these companies as global warming is a hot topic these days.