Energy efficiency is a key part of HP’s design for the environment as a pillar or HP’s global citizenship program. HP has been doing this since 1992.
HP (Compaq and Digital Equipment) were 3 of 7 companies who worked with the EPA in June of 1992 to develop the energy star program. The same 3 companies were among 8 of the original signers to the first Energy Star partnership with the EPA in 1992, and the first to start displaying and marketing the Energy Star logo.
http://www.energystar.gov/
For more information on HP’s Design for the Environment Program see: www.hp.com/environment
Bottom line: Addressing the power and cooling challenge is much more than developing efficient chips. It goes much farther than that and is about the entire datacenter, products and services. HP recognizes that power and cooling is a complex and multifaceted problem.
HP has the resources, experience and commitment to address the challenge of power and cooling holistically. HP is uniquely capable to address the entire scope of this challenge.
For more information on exciting work underway at HP Labs around energy aware computing, click here.
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April 2006. Power and cooling has become a hot topic with datacenter customers. Customers are finding it an increasingly difficult challenge to take advantage of improvements in system performance and compute density due to the higher power and cooling loads. Facilities and data center design have not kept pace with the advancement in technologies. Additionally, rising energy costs -- at a time when power consumption is also increasing -- means that energy outlays now consume a larger and larger portion of companies’ IT budgets.