Introduction
In today’s global business and trade environment, power and global warming are becoming greater concerns for the worldwide community. With the explosive growth of the Internet, digital computing and global IT infrastructures, the rise of large-scale data centers has led to an increasing awareness of their impact on power consumption. Correspondingly,
the millions of consumer electronics in use today,including PCs and laptops, only add to the drain on power infrastructures. As a result, what was once largely the domain of home appliances – developing energy-
efficient washers and dryers, heaters, and refrigerators – has now become a much larger concern for the IT industry.
In recent history, the United States’ power grid has been taxed by wide-scale power emergencies on the East Coast in 2003 and in California in the early 2000s. With concerns about decreasing oil reserves, energy price spikes and global warming, the IT industry has begun to place greater......
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