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David Perry

Reduce your IT’s Carbon Footprint and Save Yourself a Packet! Top 5 Tips

I recently wrote an article entitled “COP26 has highlighted that to combat emissions, everyone needs to start taking individual responsibility” which offered a use case to help reduce emissions. As a follow-up, here are my top 5 tips for cutting your IT department’s Carbon Footprint to a fraction of what it probably is today. 1.     Switching off …

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COP26 has highlighted that to combat emissions, everyone needs to start taking individual responsibility

In the Financial Times article, Big Tech races to clean up act as cloud energy use grows there are some scary numbers: 1.     Tech emissions are growing by 6% per annum 2.     Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple, between them consume more than 45 terawatt-hours per annum (about the same as New Zealand!) According to a Greenpeace article referred to by …

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Survive and Thrive

The pandemic has turned virtually everybody’s lives upside down and this has had the effect of focussing people’s minds, on priorities in their personal life, work and even their whole relationship with work. I had my own ‘COVID moment’ contracting the virus in December 2020, but count myself lucky as my symptoms were very minor. …

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