GOVERNMENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS TO BECOME MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT TO CONSERVE POWER SAYS KANSAS GOVERNORS
The governors in Kansas & Minnesota have pledged to making government computer systems a more energy efficient PC systems to save energy, making their states the first to join an industry move to conserve power and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions as much as they can. The governors plan to have their states purchase more and more energy-efficient computers and servers from now. Thre is also a plan to install system wide controls that will cause computers to sleep each evening, to save power. The Minnesota Republican Tim Pawlenty and Kansas Democrat Kathleen Sebelius said they will encourage other states and then the world to follow their example as part of a National Governors Association program for promoting energy efficiency.
These announcements on Wednesday came 05 months after a coalition of environmental groups and technology companies, including the Internet search leader Google Inc., launched an initiative to make more energy efficient PC computers and servers. The Co-director of the industry's initiative, stated that the states' participation is important because they procure the maximum number of desktop computers and servers in the state. Minnesota's state government procures more than about 4,000 computers a year against the number of computers procured for Kansas which is between 4,500 and 5,000. "The cleanest and cheapest energy is the energy we don't use, if all states adopt these approaches, the combined impact would be very substantial." they said. It is estimated that energy efficiency technology is going to increases a computer's cost by $20 and a server's cost by $30 which is now seen as a welcome price rise. and is going to transform the energy efficient pc industry. When these systems are sold in high volume the price premium will be very less for the energy efficient PC.
