Intel has released their newest and fastest quad-core chips ahead of delivery expectations at the request of pc makers. Don’t expect a jump in quality video editing on YouTube as a result.
CNET reports on a bill recently passed by the Senate. The government wants servers and data centers? to be power miserly. Uh, yeah, save money, we get it. Did they miss the memo from Google and other touting the new super effiecient data centers being built?
In an effort to slow down even the most efficient areas of technology, the U.S. governement is trying to bring EnergyStar studies and eventually compliance to data centers. Look for more overhead and higher hosting costs as a result.? I have a feeling they’ll first learn what efficiency is from the top players, then they’ll make up their own recommendations.
From Aloha Workshops in the Big Island of Hawaii where we produce our own power for this podcast, this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the WOW Technology Minute.
Here’s the? quote from CNET.com
The U.S. Senate late on Thursday unanimously approved a bill that proclaims
it is in the best interest of the United States for purchasers of computer servers to give high priority to energy efficiency as a factor in determining best value and performance for purchases of computer servers.
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Senate passes bill touting energy-efficient servers
http://news.com.com/Senate+passes+bill+touting+energy-efficient+servers/2100-1014_3-6142162.html
Enterprise Server and Data Center Efficiency Initiatives
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=products.pr_servers_datacenters
EPA releases Energy Star specification for servers
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/servers/2006/1030server2.html
EPA Energy Star program to tackle server market
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/38220-1.html
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Big Island Burns Coal and Oil to Produce Power
http://starbulletin.com/2001/06/10/news/story3.html
?Hawaii uses oil to generate a whopping 78 percent of the state’s electricity, compared with just 3 percent nationwide. So everything the Bush plan says about diversifying from fossil fuels goes for us in spades.