HOLYOKE, Mass. -- The city of Holyoke, with its ready source of cheap, relatively clean hydroelectic power, will host a new, energy efficient data center that will bring innovation and jobs to the city.

By using ambient electromagnetic radiation, Nokia thinks it can enable cell phones to draw power from the air by 2013, meaning millions of phone chargers would no longer need to be manufactured.

WEYBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM -- With a PUE of 1.2, the new data center designed by Keysource for Petroleum Geo-Services has cut its energy costs almost in half using already-existing technologies.

BOULDER, Colo. -- A new study by Pike Research forecasts rapid growth in demand for green networking hardware over the next four years as telecom firms look to cut costs and emissions through improved energy efficiency in their operations.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- The company's Surveyor program now includes graphical readouts that display CO2 emissions reductions, energy and money savings from smart power management policies; meanwhile, two cities highlight their cost and energy savings from using the software.

Greenpeace recently made headlines with its "CoolIT Challenge" in which it issued a scorecard about the green IT actions of top technology vendors such as IBM, Dell, Sun, Intel, and Cisco. Greenpeace concluded all of them were doing a poor job --- but it's Greenpeace itself, not the tech firms, that missed the boat. The Greenpeace campaign, while well-intentioned, is simplistic and misguided.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- With new servers, printing solutions, an upcoming "telepresence-lite" program and new environmental commitments, Hewlett-Packard today announced several expansions to its overall green IT program.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Agencies in Washington State’s King County cut PC energy consumption by an average of 38 percent with Verdiem software, which powers down idle computers.

The certification that has taken the computer world by storm announced plans to create a certification to address the energy use, materials use, and end-of-life issues for television sets.

SYRACUSE and ARMONK, N.Y. -- In a partnership with Syracuse University, IBM is breaking ground today on a new data center facility embracing a range of cutting-edge green IT solutions.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The environmental group's "Cool IT Challenge" scorecard puts IBM and Sun at the top of the heap for green commitments from the computer industry, but with just 29 points out of 100, it's hardly a bragging right.

HAMPTON, N.H. -- In the first-ever corporate sustainability benchmarking report from Technology Business Research, Dell scored highest, with BT and IBM coming in a distant second and third, respectively.

There's good news and bad news about the just-released Energy Star ratings for servers. The good news is that it exists. The bad news is that it doesn't go nearly far enough.