A large IBM green project is designed to deal with the dramatic increase in electricity consumption in computer centers and includes the development of new products and services designed to reduce energy consumption in data processing centers
IBM will invest a billion dollars a year, in all areas of its activity, in order to significantly improve the energy consumption efficiency of computing systems. IBM's new venture includes the development of new products and services designed to reduce energy consumption in data processing centers. IBM's Project Big Green is designed to deal with the dramatic increase in electricity consumption and the associated expenses in computer centers.
The project will be managed with the help of over 850 energy efficiency experts, working in various IBM entities all over the world. According to IBM estimates, the energy savings in a data processing center with an area of 2,500 square meters may reach up to 42% of the annual energy consumption, which means a saving of 7,439 tons in the emission of carbon pollutants into the atmosphere.
Saving energy consumption in data processing centers is becoming a critical issue, as more businesses rely on their information systems to generate business value and build innovative business models. According to data from the research company IDC, for every dollar spent on computer hardware, the organization using these systems will spend 0.5 dollars per year on purchasing energy. During the next four years, this expenditure is expected to grow by 54%.
IBM itself currently operates the largest commercial technological infrastructure in the world, with over 800 square meters of computing centers on six continents. Using new methods, IBM expects to double the computing capacity in its data processing centers over the next three years - without increasing power consumption or carbon pollutant emissions.
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Ami, what do you have from your computer, revive a little
I don't understand much about energy! But it seems to me that the investment in thinking in this area is a bit stuck in recent years. We need to invent a device that can "capture cold" because cold is a natural "resource" that is not used enough. If there was a way to take cold from the environment and cool our computers with it - we would save lots and lots of energy. The problem is that there is no such thing as cold physically. There are different degrees of heat. Therefore, it may not be possible to invent such a "cold trap".
I lived in Germany for several years. There in the cold winter. Indoors is a tropical climate. The computer of course senses what is inside the house. I could be very happy if my computer's processor was at the temperature outside the house while the rest of the computer was inside.