Intel, Google Go Green

IT industry giants Google and Intel are going greener to reduce gas emissions and to save energy costs.

This innovation will increase computer prices by $30, but the decrease of energy costs will cover that money. Powerful data centers with huge computers use to much energy, cooling the server computers costs much more we could imagine. High end user computers also don't spare energy.

IT industry has a bad impact on environment. The huge part of global warming is caused by computers, printers, air conditioners and other office equipment. Carbon emissions also make IT industry companies to think about improving their technology.

The problem of reducing carbon emissions is the main for aviation and motoring industries, because the most part of the global pollution is from these industries. But analysis shows that II industry and consumer electronics give 2 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions, which is the same pollution as from aviation and motoring.

The fear of global warming made the industry giants Google and Intel go greener, they signed up to Climate Savers Computing Initiative, backed by backed by the World Wildlife Fund and aimed to "set aggressive new targets for energy efficient computers and components". Other IT industry companies such as Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft are already singed up to this project.

"The average desktop PC wastes nearly half of its power, and the average server wastes one-third of its power. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is setting a new 90 per cent efficiency target for power supplies which, if achieved, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54m tonnes per year - and save more than $5.5bn in energy costs," said Urs Holzle, a senior executive at Google.

"By 2010, the initiative will cut greenhouse gas emissions in an amount equal to removing more than 11 million cars from the road or shutting down 20 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants - a significant step in reducing the emissions affecting our planet," said Pat Gelsinger, an executive of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.

The initiative of Google and Intel is welcomed by environmental groups, because green industry is the number one to make environment safe. By Ruzan Harutyunyan For HULIQ

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