Google has presented a new suggestion for a new standard for PC power supplies which according to the search engine giant would save tons of energy through better efficiency, and those who pay the bills knows that energy = money. Google’s plan is simply to skip the different voltages of power supplies and instead use a single 12V standard where the motherboards will instead convert the incoming voltage for the components of the system. The power supplies would be easier to manufacture and the efficiency would according to Google be a lot higher.
“The Google white paper argues that the opportunity for power savings is immense — by deploying the new power supplies in 100 million desktop PC’s running eight hours a day, it will be possible to save 40 billion kilowatt-hours over three years, or more than $5 billion at California’s energy rates.”
As Slashdot points out it could have something to do with the rumor that Google is rumored to sit on a server park with about 450 000 systems, which should generate quite an electric bill.
