Opinion: Carbon Tax and the Impact on Data Centres

The Voice of IT Management (Oct 19 2011) Carbon Tax , Emissions , Cloud Computing

1. The details of the Carbon Tax have finally been revealed and everyone wants to know how it will affect them. The IT industry is no exception and questions arise as to the likely impact on data centres, Cloud usage and even green IT initiatives in general. Although the government says that there will only be about 500 companies that pay the carbon tax, we will all end up paying it indirectly, as the added costs to these companies gets passed along the supply chain. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to predict with much certainty what the actual pricing impact will be. However, it would be reasonable to assume that some broad based corrections will occur as a result of the new tax, which will include the IT sector. (Read Full Article)

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