Dell Highlights Progress on Energy-Efficieny Programs

Dell Highlights Progress on Energy-Efficieny Programs

Michael Dell underscored Dell’s commitment to the environment and a new strategy to design the most energy-efficient products in the IT industry today in a keynote speech at OracleWorld. “Our focus on delivering products with the most performance per watt is delivering benefits to our customers’ bottom lines and to the environment,” Mr. Dell said. “We estimate that if the energy-smart settings we’ve engineered into our newest OptiPlex desktop had been available on each desktop we’ve shipped over the past year, those customers could have saved enough electricity to power about 1.5 million U.S. homes for one year.”

Applying the energy-efficiency settings currently in place on the new OptiPlex 745 on all Dell desktops also could save enough electricity to avoid about 12.5 million tons of CO2 emissions annually, the equivalent of removing an estimated 2.5 million cars from the road, Mr. Dell said. The power savings also have the potential to save customers about $1.6 billion per year in operating costs1.

Mr. Dell highlighted an enhancement made to the energy calculators available on the customer energy resource guide at www.dell.com/energy. The calculators now help customers figure the equivalent CO2 emissions avoided from potential energy savings in addition to their potential cost savings. Customers can also see how those energy savings would compare to the number of cars being removed from the road. Dell’s energy-efficient product strategy and customer energy resource guide were announced at the company’s Technology Day event in September.

Dell also announced two PowerEdgeTM servers today featuring AMD Opteron processors. The new servers deliver industry-leading price-performance and excellent performance per watt. The PowerEdge 6950 consumes up to 20 percent less power than previous generation quad-socket PowerEdge servers2. The PowerEdge SC1435 is a dual-socket, rack-dense server optimized for high-performance compute clusters that can deliver performance-per-watt improvements of up to 138 percent3.

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