North American Utility Companies and IBM to Team Up and Make Data Centers and Computer Technology More Energy Efficient

At an event attended by business leaders from North American utility companies, IBM issued a call to action between the IT and utility industry around energy efficiency, expanding IBM’s existing collaboration on Intelligent Utility Networks to include corporate consumption of energy for data centers and facilities. The initial utility company to support this initiative is Con Edison of New York.

IBM is seeking to engage public sector utility companies to tackle significant corporate energy efficiency issues by jointly developing awareness on current levels of data center and facilities energy consumption and creating plans to reduce, monitor, verify and benefit from reducing energy consumption. IBM is also announcing a new carbon assessment service and a new virtual green data center.