Marisa at CSR@Intel posted some useful studies on IT and climate change.
A linked article in December’s Economist sums up the argument as follows:
So computing does indeed have a role in fighting climate change, but that role mainly involves using computers in new ways, rather than making the machines themselves more efficient. It is time for the industry to start thinking outside the box, as it were.
Filed under: Computerizing green, Energy Use Measurement, Greening computers
