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In the dog days of summer you might, like me, find yourself with a bit more time on your hands than usual. Given the standard of the average British summer, spending all of it frolicking in the great outdoors isnt always an option. Sitting down to watch a few sci-fi classics is one alternative – albeit a geeky one. But beware, rather than escapism, some of these films have a way of focusing the mind on real-world issues in an unexpected way.
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The global software industry could reduce its carbon emissions by up to 80 per cent if businesses ‘ditched’ using hard copies in favour of downloaded products.
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May 26 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, will buy carbon credits from a South Carolina landfill, Blue Source LLC, the developer of the pollution-cutting project, said today.
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Intel has given a lot of lip service to reducing the carbon footprint of the IT industry. Thankfully, the company is walking the walk as well – and taking big strides. The progress includes cutting its overall carbon footprint by 24% in 2009, and trimming its energy use by 9% during the same year – equating to a $4 million savings on electricity costs – all while keeping business rolling strong. Intel’s progress is made mostly by focusing on one area in particular.
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It seems like just yesterday that we went round and round about how much energy a typical Google search uses, and what kind of carbon footprint that equates to. The use of our computers and data centers adds up to a significant amount of electricity use, which adds up to a significant amount of carbon dioxide and other gasses into the atmosphere. And our use of digital media as a way of socializing and communicating is no small piece of that pie, as Facebook’s electricity bill has proven. But breaking it down to smaller components like single tweets can be a more difficult task. However, one of the guys from Twitter recently gave a talk on the energy use and carbon footprint of twittering, including just how much each tweet takes up.
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Quick Pitch: Helps people offset their websites carbon footprint by investing in green energy projects.
Genius Idea: Most of us realize that the internet is fueled by electricity thats churned out by power plants, which in turn impacts the offline world.
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Cupping their hands near holes drilled for cable routing, workers at the Boeing Companys data processing site near Seattle noticed this year that air used to keep the computers cool was seeping through floor openings.
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Scientists recently warned us about how much our computer use is costing the planet, so it was inevitable that attention would turn to ways of making these machines a little bit more green. A Dutch student who helped pioneer the worlds first carbon-neutral computer room told Radio Netherlands Worldwide much of the project was simply based on common sense.
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Japanese technology company Fujitsu and its partner Fuji Electric Systems unveiled on Tuesday a package of solutions they said would reduce data center-caused carbon dioxide emissions by about 40 percent. The new solutions are a facility management system that visualizes data center energy use, a spot air conditioning system, noise-baffle-borne solar cells.
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Data centers are energy hogs in a big way. This we know. And they’re energy hogs because they’re busy helping us update our Facebook status, tweet the latest news blips, buy our e-books, and check our email. We focus primarily on the data centers themselves, which can be retrofitted or built to be energy efficient. However, every so often, we catch wind of projects that are trying to green the web from another direction – primarily, through the users and alternative energy sources. That’s where Greenscroll comes in.
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When IBM researchers went looking for a better coolant for high-powered computers, they didn’t have to look very far. Working alongside researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), IBM has developed a water-cooled, high-performance computer that will recycle waste heat while reducing energy consumption at data farms. Known as the Aquasar, its carbon footprint could be 85% less than similar air-cooled systems, saving 30 tons of CO2 per year while augmenting buildings’ heating systems.
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The service will help government organisations and enterprises calculate energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions emanating from IT assets.
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Market forces, rather than legislation, are driving companies to consolidate servers and develop more efficient power and cooling systems in data centres.
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Several of the largest government departments have released figures on the carbon emissions produced from their use of IT.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. has cut about $20 million in information technology operating costs and trimmed its IT carbon footprint by 10,450 metric tons by managing data center growth and ending IT redundancies.
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Tesco has applied the latest blade server and virtualisation technology to mission-critical systems running in its data centre to improve performance, cut costs and help fulfil its commitment to reduce its carbon emissions.
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