Cloud Computing May Reduce 95% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
July 2, 2013
Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.
The Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), the global association that promotes Green IT and promote the goal IT equipment a tool for assessing the sustainability performance of suppliers of raw materials and components to manufacture, revealed in a report that increased use of cloud computing services will reduce the dependence on energy and save over US$2.2 billion.
The study entitled “The Enabling Technologies of a Low-Carbon Economy – a Focus on Cloud Computing” released by a research team from Harvard University, Imperial College and Reading University, sponsored by Microsoft Europe and GeSI examines that cloud computing has the power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 95 percent…
The study conducted in 11 countries – Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Indonesia, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and the UK, reported cloud-based email, customer relationship management and groupware solutions in public and private organizations can reduce energy consumption annually by over 80%. This translates to 75% of the energy consumed by the Capital Region of Brussels or 25% of the energy consumed by London and is equivalent to abating 4.5 mega tonnes of CO2 emissions annually or taking 1.7+ million cars off the road…
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