Diagnose: energy assessment, virtual 3-D power management, and thermal analytics
Build: plan, build, or update to an energy-efficient data centre
Virtualize: IT infrastructures and special-purpose processors
Manage: control with power management software
Cool: exploit liquid cooling solutions inside and out of the data centre

In addition, the project will include IBM’s Cool Blue portfolio of energy efficient power and cooling technologies. All of this, and the energy efficient design and construction of the new facility will dramatically reduce energy thus reducing pollution created from this large of a data center.

An IDC report says that savings is huge, which estimates that for every dollar spent on computer hardware, another 50 cents is spent on energy. This amount, IDC says, is expected to increase to more than 71 cents by 2011.

The company also stated that it will soon launch The Energy Efficiency Incentive Finder, a central website for details about energy efficiency incentives and programmes that are available from local utility companies, governments, and other participating agencies anywhere in the world, Sams adds.

IBM Global Financing is positioned as part of Project Big Green to provide a green wrapper of financing solutions to help organizations acquire the hardware, software, and services they need to build an energy-efficient data centre while aligning upfront costs with anticipated project benefits.

For the Build step, IBM announced the Energy Efficiency Self Assessment as well as the IBM Scalable Modular Data Center, a pre-configured 500 or 1,000 square foot energy efficient data centre solution, among other offerings.