Datacenters Can Go Green

According to this article, the typical household PC+Monitor consumes 588 kwH/year, or roughly the equivalent of 12000 microwave meals/year.  Now consider the impact that high load datacenters must have on the environment!  A new software package developed by a Seattle firm lets IT admins monitor the power consumption across their networks and set up time-based power management schemes.  For example, your web servers could go into "low performance" mode during the off hours and only ramp up for heavy power loads when traffic peaks mid-day.  Very cool!! 

Perhaps WorldChanging's manifesto is right.  The pieces are here...  we just need to get people to use them!

Via:  WorldChanging.org  (I love this site!)