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Green Computing – Alecia Heng

- 15,000 pounds of rubbish produced by 1 person every year
- Less than 1% of water is drinkable
- 80% of Dam Water evaporates due to global warning
- Carbon dioxide stays in the earth’s atmosphere for 20-500 years
- Plastic bags used per hour; 3.6 trillion plastic bags
- Barrels of oil required per hour to produce plastic bags = 7,000 – 14,000 barrels of oil
- Hectares of forest disappear every year
o 13 million hectares of forests = 130 sq km
- Deaths per year linked to climate change = 300,000
- IT contribute to 2% of this phenomena

Initiative for Green IT

- Government regulation
- Industry Initiatives
- Things that can be reused eg: printer cartridges

Approaches to Green IT

1. Buy energy efficient products
a. Desktop(used most energy) vs laptop vs thin client
b. Monitors – does size matter?
c. Cost vs Energy Savings

FB spends more on electricity than their servers

2. Power Management
a. Sleep mode
b. Turn off

In IT, when talk about Green – refers more to tackling energy by Data Centres

3. Planning & architecting the Deployment of Infrastructure
a. Sleep mode
b. Turn off

4. Think before your print
a. Double-sided printing
b. Multiple ply
c. Print & share
d. Query vs report – instead of printing report should try Query, to which particular section you’re interested in
e. Paperless
f. Recycle paper

5.  Recycle material
a. Outdated computer
b. Recycle computer equipment
c. Reuse computing supplies

6. Telecommunicating
a. Work from home or car pool – good; MDeC should encourage this..haha
b. Teleconferencing
c. Plan your logistics

Find out what Carbon Footrpint is…

Every 2 searches via Google can boil a kettle of water

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Green Computing Chalk Talk – Matthew Khaw, Lu Chen Pin, Patrick Yong

- Less formal
- 2-way contribution
- Usually driven by Q&A
- Conducted by moderator/panel

Green Computing – study & practice of efficient & eco-friendly implementation of….

Key focuses:
• Carbon-free computing
• Solar computing – VIA Technologies first ever solar-powered cyber community
• Energy-efficient computing

Population Growth = 6.7 billion people now

Why Go Green?

• Sustainability
• `Cradle to cradle’ design, no more Cradle to Grave design
• Source reduction
• Innovation
• Visibility

Savings = save costs & environment

Govt go green
• `Energy Star’
• Malaysia formed Ministry of Energy, Green technology & Water in 2009

Enterprises Go Green

Green Initiatives being adopted
- Virtualization
- Green Data Centre
- Server/Storage Consolidation
- Dynamic Workplace – Thin Clients
- Enterprise Content Management
- Electronic Messaging & Collaboration
- Telecommunicating/Video Conferencing
- Cloud Computing

To create a Green Organization
- Savings in Energy & Operational Expanse
- Improved Resiliency & Availability of Computer Infrastructure
- Enable a Global force
- Reduce Paper/Print
- Ensuring Compliance & Security
- Enabling Efficient Business Processes

Eg: Citibank – 2009 Global Green 100 List

Effort includes:
-Built 3 Green Data Centres
-`Green Roof’
 - Water recycling facilities using Reverse Osmosis
 -protects building from mechanical damage & UV rays
 -Frankfurt facility
  - 11,750 fewer tons of carbon

No increase of costs! For their effort

Google
- `Employed’ goats to mow grass

Sony
- Sugar-powered batteries

Future
Wall Street indicates Green Movement is 100 times larger than Internet Revolution; more sustainable

Power Consumption in Data Centres (DC)

- 2006 electricity consumption – 61 million kilowatts
- 1.5% of US electricity was consumed by DC
- Projected to double every 5 years

Going Green:
Green, Less Power =
- Reduced Carbon = environmentally better
- Reduced Cost = Financially better