[LINK] Auditing of Carbon Emissions and green data centers in Canberra next week

[Tom Worthington]

There are two ACS Green ICT talks in Canberra next week, which might 
be of interest:

* Green, Rationalised Data Centres at Sun Microsystems, by Mark 
Monroe, Director of Sustainable Computing for Sun Microsystems, 12 
August 2008: <http://education.acs.org.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=7463>.

I was skeptical of SUN's data center in a shipping container, but 
they have other simpler tips for greening the computer room 
<http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/environment/green/datacenter.jsp>. Some 
of these tips are like ones for the home: adjust the thermostat so 
you are not cooling more than necessary, turn off unused machines, 
fix air flow problems, enable power management, replace old 
inefficient servers and disks and move old data off line.

* Auditing of Carbon Emissions, by Rod Gillan, Ethan Group, 13 August 
2008: <http://education.acs.org.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=7463>.

Ethan Group did the Australian ICT carbon audit for the Australian 
Computer Society last year. This found that ICT produces about as 
much greenhouse gas as the airline industry.



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