Technology giants have joined environmentalists in a campaign to dramatically cut the amount of electricity wasted by computers.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Intel and IBM are among more than two dozen firms and organisations behind Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a drive to cut greenhouse gas emissions with more energy-efficient computers and components.'
The plan sets out an industry-wide target to cut the amount of energy computers consume by 2010.
The scheme is expected to cut emissions by 54 million tonnes a year - equal to 11 million cars.
'Today, the average desktop PC wastes nearly half of its power, and the average server wastes one-third of its power," said Google vice president of operations Urs Holzle.
'We are asking businesses and individuals throughout the world to join with us to institute better power management of their computing equipment and purchase energy-efficient computers.'
Climate Savers' goal is to cut electricity wasted by computers to 10%, thereby reducing greenhouse emissions from power production by millions of tons annually and saving billions of dollars in energy bills.
