Greening ICT was the theme of the Australian Computer Society’s annual conference last weekend. It’s clear that global warming is here to stay and ICT can help.
Internally ICT contributes about 2% of the green house gases and this can be reduced with better processors, power management, virtualisation and full product lifecycle costing.
Externally ICT has a role in helping other businesses run “greener” sites and applications (e.g. cloud computing, carbon trading, video conferencing). It is estimated that ICT will provide over 90% of improvements by helping other businesses.
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