Fourth, virtual resources must be linked to the power they consume in order to understand power consumption by applications and how to optimize portable workloads.
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Civil servants in the Philippines have been put on a four-day working week, to save the petrol they use while commuting and the power they consume in their offices.
According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants consume roughly twice the water than that of gas-fired facilities while nuclear generation needs three times that of natural gas.
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California and the European Union have set limits on how much power appliances can consume in standby mode.
Microwave ovens, cellphone chargers, DVD players, computer monitors and printers all silently consume power when they aren't in use.
For the first time, customers can be part of the daily energy conversation and change the way they consume power.
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Once Transmeta started pushing the idea, both Intel and rival Advaned Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) followed suit with their own ideas for mobile chips that consume power more carefully than before.
All else being equal, this will allow Intel to stamp out processors that do more work and consume less power.
We can create products that are smaller, lighter and consume less power.
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In stand-by mode modern PC's don't consume much power anyway.
For months now we've been hearing about an initiative codenamed Banias, which is aimed at producing chips for mobile PCs that consume less power, run cooler and prolong battery life.
Detractors point out that ARM processors consume less power.
Plans to lay undersea cables from Iceland, a geothermal power leader which sits atop more potential than it can consume, would provide a renewable power source to Scotland.
More muscular chips aren't the answer they cost too much and consume too much power.
Even with the computation occurring at a data center, a Watson smartphone application would still consume too much power to be practical today.
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While some CIOs do this sort of modeling for the entire data center and all applications, many choose to focus first on applications and equipment that consume the most power.
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These are caused in part by technology advancements that increase complexity across networks, by participatory networks that allow customers to consume and generate power and by the need to integrate renewable forms of energy safely and reliably into the grid.
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Another drawback is that LCDs consume a lot of power because they are lit from behind.
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The ones with the least efficient operations that emit the most carbon, use the most water, and consume the most electric power?
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The biggest of these data factories are packed with 400, 000 servers and consume 250 megawatts of power, half the output of a small nuclear power plant.
This year Intel will lap AMD by finally scrapping the old Pentium-chip architecture in favor of a suite of lower-temperature, dual-core microprocessors that consume 35% less power and increase performance by 80%.
Either they consume vast amounts of power, which makes them expensive to run, or, if they are cooled to make them superconducting and so more efficient, they have to be kept at insanely low temperatures.
The company reckons the new transistors, which should be available later this year, will consume half as much power as its existing offerings, making them particularly suitable for mobile computing, where battery life is an important selling point.
The drawback for manufacturers such as HTC is that such services consume a lot of battery power.
At the moment, the world's data centres are estimated to consume about 14 gigawatts of power, and to be responsible for 2% of global carbon-dioxide emissions roughly the same as air traffic.
These drives consume up to 23% less power while allowing for a nearly 40% jump in capacity.
The rebalancing trick is to get a big share of this buying power into private hands, who will then consume inside China.
The 90nm chips include 2MB of L2 cache, consume no more than 125W of power, and can support 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM, all based on AMD's Socket F workstation infrastructure.
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To achieve equal performance on a write IOPS basis utilizing hard disk drives would require over 400 drives, 36U of rack space and consume more than 300 times the power.
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