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IT Going Green
In today’s world, there’s a lot of talk about environmental impacts. Naturally, initiatives toward a more “green” company are typically more thought of among industries that get more news coverage in this space such as the automobile industry. Many tech companies are looking to implement similar practices, however.
A larger example of a company in the IT space doing this is Google. Google's report in 2023 show that they are now on their sixth year in a row of matching the amount of purchased renewable energy with the amount of energy they are using. They are also working toward replenishing the amount of freshwater they use each year to cool their data centers (though some work there still needs to be done). Microsoft is in a similar wheelhouse with additional data centers popping up around the globe to support AI products and they intend to make their facilities outside North America using 100% renewable energy by 2025. Even amongst coders there is a grown consideration on how programs can be coded in order to reduce energy usage/emissions.
Many of the companies we resell products from are committed to these and similar goals, as well. Lenovo was recognized at the beginning of the year as a leader in the space by non-profit CDP for their work in the areas of renewable energies, reused metals in their products and water replenishment/reduction. HP just released a new generation of servers (Gen 11) which are 12.5% more energy efficient than previous server models.
It's an idea that isn't necessarily new to the industry, but has started to capture more attention as more and more strides are made by these organizations.
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