The more I study the intersection of technology and environmental impacts, the more fascinated I am. There is just so much to learn, and most importantly so much to DO! Per my analysis (and believe me, we’ve done some serious competitor analysis), there is a lot of talk about the importance of IT role and growing emissions due to the computing power required by AI, but I see less practical, actionable advise for CIOs what to do. But mark my words, this is not some fluffy greenwash-y hype. You can truly take action. Just a couple of examples here: 💠 Get trained: Don’t sit there and assume things but get control over the basic concepts, key facts and figures – it’s an entirely new capability for the IT team! 💠 Know your IT estate: Set up mechanisms such as scorecards and carbon emissions tracking tools so that your decision making is based on data and not on haphazard assumptions. 💠 Review your IT infra and make sure you’ve moved everything possible to the cloud. If I were a CIO, I would take one IT service at a time and go through the available options for making them greener. As a CIO, the type of questions you should be asking from yourself are: ❓ Do all our applications follow green coding principles? ❓ Are we ready to report our figures per the latest regulatory requirements? ❓ Do all my people consider environmental impacts of every decision they take? ❓ Do we expect our purchased devices to have the least possible environmental impact? ❓ Are our policies optimised for prolonged use and recycling? If you are in a situation where you’d like to get going with sustainable IT, and I mean really GET GOING in the sense of action, turn to me because I’m just bursting with energy and dying to get my hands on more real-life projects. #sustainableIT #CIO #greencoding #environment #sustainability
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Hello again everyone! In my previous article, I discussed how electricity invoice data is imported into the Sustainability Manager using an AI model. In this article, I delve into how the emissions of the raw data imported into the Sustainability Manager are calculated by leveraging various factor libraries and calculation models. Enjoy reading. #sustainability #sustainabilitymanagement #microsoft #sustainabilitymanager #emissions #ghgprotocol 🌍🌿
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2moExcellent summary Tanja Petrell, there really is so much to do in the ICT sector, more than most people realize.