energy consumption

Buildings consume 40% of all energy in the U.S., 72% of all electricity and 55% of all natural gas. In the U.S., we spend $350 billion on energy for buildings … and that number is growing. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that current trends in energy demand for buildings will stimulate about half of energy supply investments through 2030. If building site energy consumption in China and India grows to current U.S. levels, China’s and India's consumption will be about four and seven times greater than they are today.Read more

The world’s #1 energy consumer, should really be the world’s #1 carbon emitter. I think it is less important to determine who consumes the most energy because the real focus should be around ways to conserve and harvest renewable energy.

China and the U.S. are currently the world’s two largest energy consumers and CO2 emitters in the world. However, we have seen a rapid increase in energy consumption trends from developing countries like India, Brazil and Vietnam, with the next surge in demand expected to come from South America and Africa.Read more

Last month, Applied was recognized as a finalist in the Computerworld Storage Networking awards for a green IT project that reduced the cost and improved the performance of one of our data storage environments.

Mission-critical applications, those systems deemed absolutely necessary to run a business, have to be stored in a reliable IT environment. For the past several years, Applied hosted these applications at a third-party data center. When our lease came up for renewal, we wanted a new system that would cost less and use less energy, while providing more performance.Read more

In January, I wrote about the eye-opening trends on ‘Display’ at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, and described the incredible thinner and lighter form factors enabled by LED backlit LCD TVs. Now I would like to talk more comprehensively about why this revolution in TVs will be so attractive to consumers.Read more