Cutting Server Power Consumption
Useful (if somewhat overly Sun flattering) Bloomberg piece out about efforts to cut power consumption and space usage by computer servers.1The electricity bill for operating all the servers in the U.S. doubled between 2000 and 2005, to $2.7 billion, said Jonathan Koomey, a consulting professor at Stanford. Servers account for 1.2 percent of all U.S. energy consumption, or about the same amount used by all color televisions.
Sun, the fourth-largest server maker, in March planted Blackbox in New York's Grand Central Terminal so commuters could take a look. Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Schwartz is relying on products such as Blackbox to keep Sun profitable after emerging from five years of losses.
Blackbox's cooling system cuts energy consumption by 20 percent, said Darlene Yaplee, a vice president at Santa Clara, California-based Sun.
