There has been considerable interest in the last few years around the topic of green technology, which has resulted in many of the companies that offer individual and shared hosting services switching to more eco friendly hosting solutions. Considering the energy consumption and the carbon emissions that a single web server produces in just one year, it is fantastic news that so many companies are switching to greener energies.

When you sit in front of the television playing on various game consoles it is unlikely that you are thinking about how much energy it uses. After analysing the energy usage of the old game consoles compared with that of the new consoles, they determined that the new models use up to 50% less energy than the models from the year 2006.