Sustainable IT

Androids will greet guests at Japanese smart hotel

Energy-aware software design can reduce energy consumption by 30% to 90%

Green IT has traditionally defined hardware designed with power-saving features. That's all well and good, but the real savings are in software that tells hardware what to do. Case studies of energy-aware software have shown the potential to reduce c

Power company plugs data center directly into high-voltage grid

How mirrored roofs will augment data center air cooling

A new roofing material could slash data center energy costs, if it can be made to work right.

IO splits in two, solving an identity crisis

Panasonic opens smart town targeting zero-emission houses

AT&T to pay $23.8 million to settle California dumping complaint

Facebook gives its server racks a Tesla touch

White House sets 20% data center efficiency goal, but finds few takers

Whether that target is too high, too low, or reasonable, the effort is voluntary

How Big Data is helping to save the planet

With the help of HP's Vertica Analytics Platform, Conservation International is crunching data from images to monitor the biodiversity of tropical forests around the world.