IT Flying Under The Green Radar
Dennis Szubert of Silicon.com points that since the IT industry produces as many carbon emissions as the airline industry, theyve been lucky that they havent come under the same environmental microscope that that the airlines have. That luck is bound to run out however, and IT managers need to step in front of their energy consumption, and have a solid, green agenda before the environmentalists come calling.
Using data from Quocircas research report, Data Centre Asset Plannning, we can see that IT professionals are still in the dark when it comes to their energy consumption. Quocirca interviewed more than 300 US, UK and European IT directors, and found that 61% of respondents did not see a reduction of power consumption as a core directive from the business. Of the companies that had an official carbon footprint reduction policy, only 35% passed it on to the IT department as a formal objective. Most surprisingly, less than one-fifth of data centre managers have the data centre electricity bill included in their overall budgets, most companies just divide the bill equally between departments.
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