In the past few months, the big IT companies have come out with major environmentally focused announcements: Yahoo launched it's Yahoo!Green, Apple began promoting its green practices and Hewlett-Packard launched it's climate initiative. Now, it's IBM's turn.

IBM just announced that it would invest $1 billion a year to make data centers greener. 

The centers will become greener through the focus of "reducing the energy consumption and the carbon footprint of data centers" as well as "...the infrastructure of the data centers themselves, and also the things you can do around server virtualization, server design and so on as well, that make the servers themselves more efficient to run" stated Peter Williams, Big Green's Chief Technology Officer.

However, it's not just about the data centers, IBM has began their Big Green Innovations.

To learn more about IBM's launch into IT greeness, click here and read the interview between Peter Williams, Big Green's Chief Technology Officer and GreenerComputing's managing editor, Matthew Wheeland.

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