Energy Saving News
Energy-saving IT solutions 'more important than ever'
An increasing number of businesses are focusing their energy-saving efforts on their IT systems, according to an industry expert.
Writing for the green technology and business website Greenbang, Jim Hearnden explained that the powering and cooling of computer systems is likely to be the main consumer of energy for office-based companies which have no manufacturing operations.
Mr Hearnden, an enterprise technologist at Dell and a member of the IEEE, said that adopting energy-saving measures in the IT department can lead to major savings for businesses.
He offered recent developments at his company as an example, revealing that Dell recently installed software that automatically switches off a central bank of 50,000 computers overnight and re-powers them when the working day begins.
This energy-saving system is expected to result in a 40 per cent reduction in energy costs for the computer firm, reducing expenditure by approximately $1.8 million each year.
Based in Texas, Dell was founded in 1984 and currently employs over 76,500 people worldwide.
In July, the firm launched a range of desktop and portable computers bearing the US Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star rating for energy efficiency.
Friday 2nd October 2009
