A partnership between the Google-founded Climate Savers Computing Initiative and a National Governors Association program has already yielded a commitment from two state governments to buy more energy-efficient computers. The governors of Kansas and Minnesota said that they're willing to spend the required additional US$30 per computer when the states buy their more than 4,000 PCs each year. That's about how much more a computer with special energy saving components costs. The governors said they expect to pay off that additional investment quickly and possibly save even more through reduced energy costs.
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Buying more energy-efficient equipment, and implementing energy saving policies is a bad idea.
Buying more energy-efficient equipment, and implementing energy saving policies is a bad idea.
The conceptual ideals, yes
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The program grew out of Google's internal experiences building servers for its data centers, Weihl said. In the future, Google expects to share even more lessons it has learned in more efficiently running its data centers, he said.
the problem with these initiatives is that company's arn't willing to spend millions and millions to really get this going. sure, they'll change little by little over the next 5 years but nothing big will actually come of this
energy efficient != good buisness
Not really. Maybe in CRT and OLED.
/sarcastic, but true.
But not for the enviroment, the point being people don't save energy they just use the money to buy more electrical goods, flights etc.
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