Till now, I have written about ways to save our environment. I have laid more stress on technology enablement to reduce greenhouse effect. However, there are some facts, which are critical to support all the posts for focus on computers and IT to impact our environment. Here are some facts:
1. The huge computer & server warehouses that provide us means to read blogs such as these and surfing and emails, etc. are the very source of huge carbon emissions. These warehouses are set to overtake the emission contributions by global aviation industry by 2015. These vast collections of computers that provide internet banking, etc consume lot of energy.
2. The computer warehouses do not limit the energy consumption for power supply to these machines only. To support these computers, there is a huge requirement of supporting equippment, primarily air conditioning and power backups. On an average, for every unit of power consumed by these computers, there is an equivalent unit of power consumed by supporting infrastructure.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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There are organizations like www.thegreengrid.org that are working to make data centers more energy efficient. Visit the site for more details.
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