PC World reports that…
Government Workers Skip Telecommuting Opportunity
I was surprised to learn from the article that…A three-day-a-week government telecommuter could save an average of US$5,878 a year in commuting costs and avoid putting 9,060 pounds of pollutants into the environment, according to Telework Exchange.

Information Week summarizes the features of the new energy efficient Dell PowerEdge M-series blade server.
Dell Touts Energy Efficiency In M-Series Blade Servers
The M600 blade is built around two quad-core Intel Xeon processors while the M605 is build around two dual-core AMD Opteron processors. The M1000e chassis is takes up 10U of space and can house […]

From Information Week
Going Green Could Save Government $1 Billion In Five Years, Say Reports
…quotes reports (named Go Green Power Play and Go Green PC Power) funded by HP and Intel. This report focuses on the US Federal government and does not look at state and local governments.

Many many years ago I bought my first Hayes Smartmodem 300 (that’s 300 baud or bits per second for the youngsters out there, not 300Kbps). Unfortunately, I didn’t have any software to actually use it. So, I spent an evening writing a small terminal emulator in 8080 assembler. I even threw in VT100 emulation and […]

InformationWeek reports on the bay area 365 Main data center cuttings its electricity cost by $54K last year by going green.
Data Center Operator Cuts Energy Bill By Going ‘Green’
Given the kind and number of servers and comm equipment in there (I’m guessing of course), I somehow expected that savings number to be much larger (six […]

From Information Week…
Computer Servers In U.S., Europe and Japan Are Power Hogs
In total, electricity to power computer servers and related infrastructure worldwide reached 123 billion kWh in 2005, which is equivalent to fourteen 1,000-megawatt power plants, or 14 typical nuclear or coal-burning plants, says Koomey.

ComputerWorld has an article about the new Western Digital WP RE2-GP energy efficient SATA drives targeting enterprises. They come in 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB models and use 4 to 5 watts less than competitor’s models (or so they claim). WD says this translates to a savings of about $10 per year per drive. So, the […]

Interesting article over on Computerworld.com…
Extreme energy makeover: Home office edition
The author checked how much energy his home office uses and concluded that: I estimated that when I started, my equipment added $112 to my annual electricity bill, or 8.5% of the total for my household. Had I been more careful in the selection, configuration and […]

The Information Week article…
Want To Save The Planet? Turn Off That PC
…is really just a commercial for Verdiem. But, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have some interesting information to share. The Gartner study referred to in the beginning of the article says that PCs account for 40% of all electricity used by the overall IT […]

From CNN…
New kind of ‘vampire’ sucks power out of homes
It rehashes an important topic that’s been mentioned here before: Unused power transformers (e.g., cell phone, iPod, whatever) draw a lot of power that goes nowhere except as residual heat. As the article says, use a power strip and turn it off when the devices […]