Energy supplier, PowerGen, is launching a free ISP which will let users get money back on their utilities bills. The company is also offering a £30 cashback deal for users who sign-up online and switch to using PowerGen as their utilities supplier.
The research investigated the energy consumption of the top 200 UK listed companies, based on the number of traditional desktops they operate daily, and calculated the potential energy savings that could be made if these were replaced with more...
The study, conducted by Harris Interactive, found that IT executives are increasingly aware of energy, with three-quarters of the nearly 200 executives queried saying energy-efficiency has become a buying priority.
The average energy bill to run a corporate UK data centre is currently about £5.3m per year, the study said. The report's author, Keith Breed, research director at the BroadGroup said: "The IT industry has been in denial about the cost of energy.
Chipmaker AMD - one of several hardware companies that has embraced energy efficiency as part of its sales pitch - funded the study. Servers in the US and their attendant cooling systems consumed 45 billion kilowatt-hours of energy in 2005.
Because of the government's green guidelines, public sector organisations will now need to look beyond price when selecting a supplier if they want green credentials. A low cost supplier, after all, may result in high maintenance and operating...