Coming down from the cloud

sustainableindustries.com (May 31 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. All businesses—from self-employed contractors to global corporations—rely on information technology (IT) and telecommunications to survive in the global market. While necessary, all that computing results in 2 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, according to a 2007 study by research firm Gartner Inc. While that might not sound like much—especially compared to the building industry’s 8 percent and the transportation sector’s 13 percent, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the IT industry is expected to continue to grow. More people are relying on smart phones, tablet PCs and devices such as the iPad, all of which largely rely on “cloud computing,” whereby information and services are delivered to each computer in real time via the Internet. (Read Full Article)

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