Archive for September 27th, 2006

September 27

More computing power for the same electricity

Posted by Elliot
Filed under Google | 35 Comments

One of Google’s greatest expenses is electricity. Well, on Tuesday, they called for vastly more efficient PC power supplies– in partnership with Intel. The power supply is often the component that consumes the most energy in current PCs.
Google says it’s increased the efficiency of power supplies from 60-70% to 90%, and the same efficiency is [...]