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IBM Aims to Become Energy Efficient Business
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2007-05-11 -
21:05:00
IBM, a provider of global services, today announced that it will spend $1 billion a year to make its business energy efficient.
The company's plan includes new products and services for IBM and its clients to reduce energy consumed by data centers. Data centers, clusters of computers used for everything from payroll to web hosting, require a lot of power. They also generate a substantial amount of heat that must be removed to allow the computers to operate. That cooling also uses power. Called 'Project Big Green,' IBM's initiative targets corporate data centers where energy constraints and costs can limit growth. The initiative includes a new global 'green team' of 850 energy efficiency architects from across IBM, says the company.
"The data center energy crisis is inhibiting our clients' business growth as they seek to access computing power," said Mike Daniels, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Technology Services. "Many data centers have now reached full capacity, limiting a firm's ability to grow and make necessary capital investments. Today we are providing clients the IBM action plan to make their data centers fully utilized and energy efficient."
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