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Are Tiny Processors the Future of Green Data Centers?

Think virtualization in a data center, and you most likely think of the latest generation of multi-core chips, such as Intel's recently released Nehalem-EX processor, which comes with eight cores a a whopping 2,300,000,000 transistors. But the future of green data centers may be in the opposite end of the spectrum, with server clusters built using many small, power-efficient processors.

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Nokia Wants Charger-Free Mobile Phones

By using ambient electromagnetic radiation, Nokia thinks it can enable cell phones to draw power from the air by 2013, meaning millions of phone chargers would no longer need to be manufactured.

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Greenpeace Misses the Boat with Its Green IT Campaign

Greenpeace recently made headlines with its "CoolIT Challenge" in which it issued a scorecard about the green IT actions of top technology vendors such as IBM, Dell, Sun, Intel, and Cisco. Greenpeace concluded all of them were doing a poor job --- but it's Greenpeace itself, not the tech firms, that missed the boat. The Greenpeace campaign, while well-intentioned, is simplistic and misguided.

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Green IT a Key Component of KPMG's 'Living Green' Strategy

KPMG, one of the “Big Four” public accounting firms, has embraced green IT to help the company reduce its carbon footprint. The jewel in the crown of its efforts is a new technology center with a cogeneration system that satisfies 70 percent of its electricity needs and captures excess heat to provide cooling.

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EPEAT Sets Its Green Sights on Televisions

The certification that has taken the computer world by storm announced plans to create a certification to address the energy use, materials use, and end-of-life issues for television sets.

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IBM: CSR is Good for Business

IBM has some advice for companies that are tempted to ease up on their commitment to corporate social responsibility during the recession: Don’t.

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The Dirty Truth About (Some) E-Waste Collections

A new report from the Basel Action Network calling out an electronic waste recycler for misleading practices highlights how complicated and potentially risky the e-waste collection issue can be for companies and other groups.

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Energy Star for Servers: Not Nearly Good Enough

There's good news and bad news about the just-released Energy Star ratings for servers. The good news is that it exists. The bad news is that it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Greener by Design: Can We Build Efficiency Into Products and Systems?

The final panel discussion at Greener by Design 2009 explored how energy efficiency can be an obstacle and benefit to the design process, from the product level to the systems level.

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The New Normal and the Need for 'Radical Evolution'

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IT Pros to the Feds: Don't Regulate Green IT

What's near the top of the list of concerns for IT pros? If a recent survey is to be believed, they worry that the federal government may begin setting regulations for Green IT. But there's plenty of evidence those fears are unfounded. I've got details in my blog.

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Will South Korea Clean the U.S.'s Clock in Green IT?

There's no doubt that the future of IT is green, and that any country that leads the world in Green IT will reap enormous financial benefits. But it may be that South Korea, rather than the United States, will become the world Green IT leader.

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Google: We're Greener than Newspapers and OJ

A great debate has been raging over whether the Internet uses massive amounts of energy, or instead saves energy because it delivers energy savings in many ways. Google has just waded into the debate again, saying that not just the Internet, but IT in general, helps reduce overall energy use. On its blog, it has some amusing comparisons between Google searching and other activities, like reading a newspaper or drinking orange juice.

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Wanted: One Million Green Ideas for $1 Million

Today we're confronted by crises that reach around the globe, connecting nearly every hut, home, village and megacity with the offices of commerce and every legislature, congress and parliament. If there were ever a time for a one-in-a-million idea, it would be now, writes Anthony Rubenstein, who is launching the Million Green Ideas Campaign.

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Beat the Recession: Become a Green IT Consultant

Times are tough, but for Green IT consultants the future looks very bright. Forrester has recently come out with a report that says the market for Green IT services will grow at an eye-popping 60% per year, and reach $4.8 billion by 2013.

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CITRIS: An Incubator of Green Tech Innovation

At the University of California's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, scientists are developing thermometers that can reduce electricity demand by as much as a third, working to turn your cell phone into a traffic-monitoring device or a medical aid, and much more.

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How To Jump into Green IT 2.0

Most companies have already started on some kind of Green IT program, whether it be as small as saving energy on individual PCs, or as large as data center transformation. Whatever the state of your company's Green IT plans, though, it's time to make the jump to Green IT 2.0. Here's how to do it.

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Google Data Center's Massive Energy Appetite

The amount of electricity that just one Google's data centers could use when it comes up to full power is enough to power the city of Oakland for almost four months (or the entire city of Topeka).

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