News Roundup

• Fujitsu has developed a new structure for gallium-nitride high electron-mobility transistors that can minimize power loss in power supplies, with applications for IT hardware and home electronics.

• The New York Stock Exchange is building new data centers with 10 gigabit Ethernet technology to support internal latency of 50 ms roundtrip. Oh and it’s green too.

• Unilever joins the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, along with over 470 other companies already in it.

• American Internet Services’ data center greening efforts has been recognized with an award by San Diego Gas & Electric.

• Bank Technology News thinks that banks should start going green now, especially in IT, to get ahead of government regulations. Good advice!

• NextGen Research predicts that purchases of green computers will grow from less than a sixth of the market in 2009 to nearly two thirds (over $190 billion) by 2013.

• Sony reduced its global CO2 emissions by approximately 100,000 tons in fiscal year 2008. In Sony Europe, every facility with over 100 employees is powered exclusively by renewable energy.

• Yahoo announces it will become carbon-neutral by becoming more energy-efficient, not through purchasing carbon offsets.