Green IT and Green Software

Roberto Verdecchia; Patricia Lago; Christof Ebert; Carol De Vries

doi:10.1109/MS.2021.3102254

Green IT and Green Software

Roberto Verdecchia, Patricia Lago, Christof Ebert, Carol De Vries

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Software and IT usage are continuously growing to keep our society active and manage our individual lives. But as they grow, their energy demand is exploding. By 2030, data centers alone will already consume some 10% of the global electricity.1 Including the Internet, telecommunications, and embedded devices, the energy consumption will be one-third of the global demand. Understanding that end users only consume what we offer, it is the community of software developers who must become active in ecologic behaviors. Green IT is the call of today. Each single line of code that we develop today may still be running years from now on zillions of processors, eating energy and contributing to global climate change.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-15
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	38
Issue number	6
Early online date	25 Oct 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2021.3102254
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021

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green software
cloud computing
sustainability
digital infrastructure
data center
energy efficiency
amsterdam economic board
LEAP

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Connected World

UN SDGs

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Green IT and Green Software

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