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The alliance has been created to promote energy-efficient computing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54-million tons a year. Others committing to the scheme by forming the Climate Savers Computing Initiative include Dell, EDS, IBM and Microsoft. <\/font><\/p>\n

The goal is to set aggressive targets for energy-efficient computers and components, and promote the adoption of energy efficient computers and power management tools. <\/font><\/p>\n

“Today, the average PC wastes nearly half of its power and the average server wastes one-third of its power,” said Urs Holzle, the senior vice-president for operations at Google. “The initiative is setting a new 90% efficiency target for power supplies, which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54-million tons per year and save more than $5,5bn in energy costs.” <\/font><\/p>\n

By 2010, the initiative would have cut greenhouse gas emissions to the same degree as removing more than 11-million cars from the road, said Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice-president of Intel. “Computers have helped us make huge strides towards a more efficient world today, with reduced travel, more productivity and online transactions. But, with today’s latest energy-efficient technologies, we can do even more,” said Gelsinger. <\/font><\/p>\n

Businesses and individuals can join in by buying energy-efficient computers and committing to better power management. The website www.climatesaverscomputing.org will help consumers learn how to take advantage of their existing computer’s power-saving capabilities such as sleep and hibernate modes, which can cut energy use up to 60%. <\/font><\/p>\n

The initiative licensed its name from the World Wildlife Fund Climate Savers programme, which encourages companies to reduce their carbon footprint. <\/font><\/p>\n

“This is the first time our Climate Savers programme has been applied to an entire sector, engaging manufacturers, retailers, and consumers,” said senior vice-president John Donoghue.<\/font><\/p>\n

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AN UNLIKELY alliance has sprung up between the industrial giants Intel, HP and Lenovo and a handful of other hi-tech companies and the bunny-hugging World Wildlife Fund. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}