Archive for April, 2010

Green:Net: Greentech Innovation Comes From Computing Power, Says Bill Gross

The cost of commodities trend in one direction: up. Coal, oil, gold, even rice, it’s all the same, said greentech and software pioneer Bill Gross at Earth2Tech’s Green:Net conference today. “The one thing that’s going down is the cost of computational power.

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International Green IT Awareness Week calls on celeb support

ComputersOff.org is hosting the first International Green IT Awareness Week in June to encourage a global discussion on sustainable IT solutions.

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Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson eyes green IT

Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson says he plans to focus a big chunk of his firm’s latest $400 million funding toward green computing and other energy-related investments.

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Green:Net: Innovating to Reduce Energy Consumption of Computing

As information technology begins to improve energy efficiency in industries such as transportation and electricity generation, it will grow to consume ever more energy.

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Report Questions UK Governments Green Strategy

April 29, 2010 — A recent study conducted by data storage firm Bridgehead Software has brought into question the UK government’s green computing strategy, according to a report by Gold Global.

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