Project Green Planet

Although nearly 70 per cent of UK businesses have no target to reduce their carbon footprint, over 90 per cent think that tackling the carbon footprint of IT systems is core to an overall green strategy, new research reveals.

Across the board the Green IT Awareness Survey reveals a story of businesses believing in the concept of greener IT but failing to translate that into action.

Instead, they are looking to suppliers and to the Government to carry the responsibility for bringing down carbon emissions.

Chris Hines, Director of Sustainability at The Eden Project, said: “IT has the potential to have huge benefits for sustainability, but if played wrong can accelerate its impact disastrously.

“All business can think smart about making IT work for them and the planet.”

Seventy-nine per cent of respondents do not link power costs to hardware spend or IT budgets, despite the fact that a small server will now cost more to power during its lifecycle than it costs to purchase initially.

Indeed, over 95 per cent of surveyed companies do not know how efficient their IT systems are because they have no measurement.

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Source: Scenta