What’s the Next Step to Power Savings?
Last week I got a letter from my local utility company, offering a great deal on compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. The letter pointed out that if everyone in my town changed ONE incandescent bulb to a CFL, we could save enough energy to power ~1/10 of the homes in the town for a whole year.
I decided to install CFLs because it made economic sense to me. The utility company offered me an incentive to do it. Does that make me any less of an environmentalist? I'd like to think not.
Needless to say, the postcard went into the recycle bin because I was already doing my small part. But beyond my four walls and the town where I live, big server farms and data centers are consuming billions of watts of power. With the right tools—like power-saving memory modules—and the right incentives—like bottom dollar savings—then I think we'll start seeing real results.
Michael Sporer, Regional Sales Manager, Micron Technology, Inc.
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Next step for data centers is to switch to new more power efficient CPUs!
Posted by: Axel B. | April 11, 2008 at 05:08 PM
Next step in Power saving must be the initiative that Google´s have pronounced for Power devices in PC`s and server`s.
http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org is something all in business must join.
The step after that should be the Turbo Memory standard with Flash cache on motherboard´s.
And OLED display´s in all computing devices.
Posted by: Mikael Andersson, in Sweden | July 16, 2007 at 07:11 AM