Green IT

Green IT is gaining momentum – but it is an area that is complicated by misinformation, tokenism (or ‘greenwashing’) from manufacturers/service providers and misperceptions among end users. At the moment the key driver for most organisations is cost saving, although the UK public sector has published carbon reduction targets for 2012 and 2020. Private sector enterprise now also has to make the choice between meeting carbon reduction targets or paying fines.

Introduction

Already, organisations are reporting a skills gap around areas such as the implementation of virtualisation and the building of a Green IT infrastructure. In partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University’s Innovation North - Faculty of Information & Technology, nti Leeds will be supporting the growing number of challenges that creative & digital industries are facing.

Currently, there are three main questions being posed, what does “green” really mean? Why be Green? How to be Green? As a response to these questions, Professor Colin Pattinson has launched the UK’s first MSc Green Computing course. Increasing employment opportunities within the environmentally aware organisations - sustainability and renewable energy companies - puts this training course in the current trends of today’s technology. 

Find out more about this rapidly growing area at the about page, the MSc Green Computing course and the blog.

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