15 Dec 2009

Green IT 'helping UK reduce carbon emissions'

The UK recently came third in a list of countries that could make the biggest reductions in carbon emissions through the uptake of green IT.

A study presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen - the ICT Sustainability Index - showed only Japan and the US ranked higher in terms of the amount they could save.

It noted the UK could save up to six billion tonnes of CO2 emissions by 2020 if businesses and infrastructure throughout the country fully embraced green IT measures.

Elsewhere, James Cole, director of IT support services provider Keysource, recently said green IT measures in data centres are critical to businesses reducing their carbon emissions and power consumption.

"Cooling technologies which utilise ambient temperatures outside the data centre [and] technologies which draw fresh air into the data centre are all sort of at the nub of the technology," he commented.