Items tagged with Carbon footprint

by Seth Colaner - Fri, Sep 09, 2011

Google Claims It Has Zero Carbon Footprint

Google has kept information on its energy use a secret for years, but now the search giant is going public with the details. In a couple of blog posts, Google talks about its energy approach and links to a new “The Big Picture” page where you can learn all about it. The biggest claim the company makes is that it has zero carbon... Read more...

by Jennifer Johnson - Thu, Jul 08, 2010

IBM Delivers Innovative Water Cooling System For Datacenters

Through a project known as Aquasar, IBM researchers are working on new technologies that could drastically reduce the power consumption and carbon footprint of data centers. Aquasar involves a water-cooled supercomputer that uses 40% less energy than comparable systems that use today's air-conditioned methods.In... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Sun, Oct 18, 2009

ASUS Produces World's First Notebook Computer to Receive Carbon Footprint Certificate

ASUS Produces World's First Notebook Computer to Receive Carbon Footprint Certificate Taipei, Taiwan, October 16, 2009 – ASUS, the global IT industry leader in green innovation, today announced that its N51V notebook computer is the world's first notebook to receive both Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and... Read more...

by Daniel A. Begun - Thu, Apr 16, 2009

Study States Spam Contributes to Global Warming

We knew that spam e-mails drained our time, resources, and productivity, but apparently spam is also contributing to global warming. Security-technology company, McAfee, and the technology-research company, ICF International, have just released a joint study that claims that the 62 trillion spam e-mails sent in 2008 generated approximately... Read more...