CeBIT, the world’s largest tech fair which showcases digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments, is currently being held at Hanover, Germany.
One of the features of this year’s CeBIT is the “Green IT” concept. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative will feature a discussion of issues relating to “Green IT”. The Initiative aims to reduce the power consumption of computers, and therefore their carbon dioxide emissions, by 50% by the year 2010, or equivalent to the annual output of 11 million cars or 10-20 coal-fired power plants. This could be reached by using more efficient components and by increasing use of power management capabilities.
The Initiative is led by companies such as Dell, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft and World Widelife Fund.
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Back in 2005 when my editors went to Taipei to cover the Computex, I was left at the office to check on their updates and read their stories and download their pictures. Life is not fair. I made myself feel better by thinking that it was only the world’s second largest IT exhibit – it is not CeBIT. What a geek.
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Maria Cristina Yambot
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