Green IT can help to curb an alarming trend!

Did you know that Information Technology now causes the release of as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as nearly 320 million cars?

All over the world, in business and also in the private sector IT is playing an increasingly important role. IT is consuming ever greater amounts of energy and is therefore the source of significant CO² emissions. According to calculations by consultants A.T. Kearney, worldwide IT now generates CO² emissions of about 600 million metric tons a year.

Today I want to show you a study of the Germany based “Borderstep Institut” about the current and expected energy consumption of servers and data centres in Germany.

There are more than three million data centres in the world! Germany’s data centres alone consume over 10 TWh of power a year. The “Borderstep Institut” predicts that until 2013 this figure will climb by nearly half unless policymakers, IT vendors and data centre operators take steps to boost efficiency. Green IT can help curb this alarming trend. Simply by consequently implementing known energy-conserving Green IT approaches, the IT-related CO² emissions can be nearly halved.