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From Lauraibm

Full story: Growth Threatens Benefits of Green IT (24-Sep-07)

A major problem facing the IT industry is the fact that worldwide growth in computer use is eroding away any gains being made as a result of lowered carbon emissions from energy efficient products. To achieve a large reduction in carbon is a challenge in itself, and the problem is intensified with the growth in computer use.

The head of sustainability at Sun Microsystems believes the answer to the problem to be low carbon emitting disruptive technologies. It is believed that low energy data centres need to be built and ICT infrastructures need to consider energy use as a starter for addressing the problem.