Climate savers expands membership
Power specialist Power-One has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), an organisation whose goal is to bring together industry, consumers and conservation organisations to increase the energy efficiency of computers and servers.
Bill Yeates, Power-One’s ceo, said: “Power-One has committed to continue to produce power systems that meet or exceed the efficiency standards published each year by the initiative. Not only is this commitment important to our environment, it is also vital to the company’s financial performance since approximately 15% of our 2007 revenues will ship to data server and storage applications.”
The CSCI’s energy efficiency benchmarks will initially follow the EPA’s Energy Star guidelines; but will have more stringent requirements in the next few years. Whilst the 2007 Energy Star specifications require pc power supplies to be at least 80% efficienct, CSCI will require a minimum of 90% by 2010. In addition, the initiative sets a higher efficiency target of 92% in the power supply for volume servers (1U and 2U single socket and dual socket systems).
