Vodafone has said it will halve its carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, largely by making its networks more energy efficient.
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Microsoft has launched an effort to become a major player in the rapidly growing energy-efficiency market. The company is recruiting developers and is eyeing opportunities to produce software for building control systems, traffic management systems and water quality management companies.
The carbon footprint of the nation's living rooms is growing bigger because of modern technology, a report out today says.
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As our nation comes to grips with the implications of global warming, technology has the potential to be a major part of the solution to our CO2 challenges.
According to research firm Gartner, by 2010 75 percent of organisations will use "full life cycle energy" and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.
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The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
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