Leeds City Council, announced last week that it has satisfied an audit process confirming it is recycling 100% of its redundant IT equipment. Leeds is not the only public sector organisation trying to greenify its computing. May saw the Ministry of Defence promising completely carbon neutral ICT by 2020, the Foreign Office is looking at video conferencing and collaboration systems and the Department for Work and Pensions making carbon reduction part of its IT contracting strategy.
The UK has rightly set itself hugely demanding targets for cutting its carbon emissions. Computing has huge potential to help in ways that are relatively painless, such as using virtualisation to cut servers, and even beneficial for staff, through remote working and less need for business travel.
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