Sustainable IT: The path to a greener future
summary
Smartphones already do trillions of operations per second vs Apollo 11’s ~14,000 FLOPS, and the sector drives 2–3% of global emissions—roughly the same as aviation—while e‑waste hits 53 million tons in 2019 (20% recycled). The practical levers named are measurable: cloud providers’ net‑zero pushes, FinOps teams and dashboards, Green Software Foundation’s carbon measurement engine, PUE targets (example PUE 1.5 = 15 kW in, 10 kW compute + 5 kW cooling), plus 8,000‑member communities and recurring green hackathons.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Sustainable IT intro
- 2:53Why it matters now
- 4:39Hardware challenges
- 7:49Green Software Foundation
- 9:56What is green software
- 13:51Hardware efficiency
- 15:56Action at enterprise level
- 17:41Regulatory impact
- 19:51Building expertise
- 22:40Summary
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