Nearly 70% of UK businesses have no target to reduce
their IT
carbon footprint.
Research by the
Green Technology Initiative reveals over 90% of respondents to
its Green IT Awareness Survey think that tackling the carbon
footprint of IT systems is core to an overall
green strategy, but most firms are not doing anything about
it.
Instead, most firms are looking to their suppliers and the
government to carry the responsibility for cutting emissions.
The survey also revealed that 79% 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.
And over 95% of respondents do not know how efficient their IT
systems are because they have
no measurement.
The survey was based on 100 responses from UK IT managers,
consultants, network and general managers.
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