IBM duo slashing power use at data centers

Source: http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2008/06/16/focus2.html.

Summary:
Data centers are those mysterious buildings loaded with electronic machinery and mostly devoid of people. In 2006, data centers consumed 1.5 percent of all the power produced in the United States. Three years have passed, and their numbers have only grown, along with their energy consumption.

All that energy is expensive and dirty, and IBM's Project Big Green is working to reduce it. Last year, the firm's Gerstner Award for Client Excellence went to Chris Molloy and Mike Hogan for helping the firm and its clients diminish their collective carbon footprint.