BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Microsoft Hyper-V could receive a warm welcome, especially from small and midsize businesses, according to Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata. "In situations where companies have invested a lot in Microsoft software training with CRM, Sharepoint, and other applications, the low energy path is to go with Microsoft," he said.

Let me remind you. All you can squeaze out from future AMD Shanghai and Intel Nehalem multi core processor is based on virtual computing. One server board might contain 4 or 8 independent OS instances, you previosly needed 8 separate cases. That could save a lot of polar bear lifes. Right?
I mean: Asian datacenter energy use to double by 2010
The region excluding Japan will require electricity equal to output from two new 1,000-megawatt power plants by 2010 to run datacenters.