Rethink the way we use IT and drive down greenhouse gas emissions. Special edition of the My Green Pod distributed with the Guardian
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The latest issue of the My Green Pod is all about how we should rethink the way we use our Information Technology (I.T.) and help to reduce the carbon emissions.
Focusing on the 4 key subjects: Remote Working, Devices, The Cloud and Re-Purposing, people from different industries share their stories on how they make it work to achieve the sustainable future.
“National emissions will be reduced as far as possible, and the rest balanced by schemes to offset an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Tree planting will play a part; the process of converting light energy into chemical energy via photosynthesis absorbs CO2 and emits oxygen. However, this natural capacity is limited by one key factor: land mass. As our climate crisis deepens, tree- planting strategies will only take us so far before we reach our coastlines.”
Professor Rob Procter & Justin Sutton-Parker take a look at ‘the world’s greenest public cloud’ sitting at the head of a hydroelectric dam in Boden, Sweden
This article has further explored into the great example of Hydro66, a cloud service provider taking a further step to focus on location-based energy rather than the market-based supply.
It continues to look into how renewable energy reduces the GHG emission associated with data center operations and why Hydro66 differentiate themselves from other public cloud providers that also focusing on renewable energy.
It’s time to do the right thing with your I.T. infrastructure. If you are in a leadership position, then it’s with you to encourage strategic moves towards green cloud infrastructure.
David Rowe, founder & CEO of Hydro66
- Susanna Kass, a member of Climate 50, Data Center Advisor to UN SDG Program
The full downloadable edition can be accessed via this URL here: https://bit.ly/3kjUGoO
This special issue has been published on 15 September 2020, and distributed with The Guardian on 16 September 2020.
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