Action needed to protect telco infrastructure from climate change
The role of ICT in driving increased greenhouse gas emissions has been well documented.
The role of ICT in driving increased greenhouse gas emissions has been well documented.
Greenpeace has charged that Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others are contributing to global warming by using coal to power data centers for their cloud-based services. The charges are dramatic --- but are they on target?
SAP is making good on its commitments to heavily reduce CO2 emissions while at the same time increasing profitability according to its president at SAP Japan, Garret Ilg.
In case you've missed it, someone recently dumped a large cache of e-mail files and documents from the University of East Anglia University's prestigious Climactic Research Unit onto the 'Net. The CRU is one of the leading climatology research institutions, and its data and models provide much of the infrastructure on which the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is based.
Data centres need to become centres of excellence in delivering cost effective computing power, says IBRS advisor, James Turner.