Print PageIntel Corporation recently published their latest Corporate Responsibility Report. This report highlights the ways in which the company has applied its technology and expertise to address environmental, social and economic challenges, and summarizes new long-term goals for continuous improvement.
With regards to energy consumption, in 2009 Intel will invest over $5 million on more than 30 projects in an effort to save at least 30 million kWh of electricity and 750 therms of fossil fuel each year in operations. Intel became the largest purchaser of green power in the US, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and built the first solar installations at Intel facilities. The company also reduced its freshwater needs by 3 billion gallons per year as a result of investments in water conservation programs over the past decade. Intel announced an investment of roughly $7bn to upgrade its US facilities with more effective technology and invested over $23m in energy efficiency and conservation projects since 2001.
Intel Corporation executive Anand Chandrasekher, has outlined progress with Intel's next-generation "Moorestown" platform and announced that the company is on track to achieve up to 50 times reduction in platform idle power while reducing the board size by 2 times compared to Intel's first-generation "Menlow" platform. This is a dramatic improvement over Intel's previously announced target of achieving >10x power reduction, and is being made possible through a combination of architectural, design and process enhancements and is scheduled to launch by 2010.
Intel aims to reduce power usage wherever possible.
Source: Intel Corporation
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