HP is worried about nocturnal emissions
18 Mar 2008 | 07:17 GMT
Slams Dell over carbon offsetting
HP SAYS THE WAY to cut carbon emissions in data centres is to "follow the moon".
This is apparently a method of shifting data centre use to wherever it is night time on the planet. During the hours of dark electricity is cheaper, though it is unclear how this saves power. An HP rep also said that carbon offsetting was a waste of time.
"Dell, at one end says it has energy-efficient servers and at the other end it plants a tree for every server it sells. There isn't enough space in the world to plant enough trees to offset the power used by a server."
It will be one to two years before anyone comes up with proper measurable benchmarks on power use and carbon emissions from data centres and IT in general.
It's all lunacy whichever way you look at it. µ
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