May 10, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM (ibm.com) announced on Wednesday it is spending $1 billion in an effort to make corporate data centers more energy efficient.
According to reports, not unlike many other large companies in the technology industry, IBM has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and will upgrade its data centers as well as help its customers redo their own facilities with multiple power-saving approaches.
IBM says it expects to make data centers more energy efficient through heavier use of virtualization technologies as well as deploying more provisioning software. It is also planning on launching new liquid-cooling systems that capture power in off-peak times and store it for peak use.
Reports say the $1 billion is being reallocated from other purposes and is not an increase in the company’s investment or capital expenditure plans and that the company sees this initiative as a massive effort that reflects how energy issues are a higher priority for its customers.
Rackforce also recently announced it has deployed new quad-core servers from IBM.
