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Information Technology: interesting paradox…is one of our favorite solutions adding to the problem?
With our voracious appetite for social media, on-line entertainment, easy-access-music, and all other internet-based activities are we facing another need for disciplining the way we consume? A Sept 22 NY Times article, “Power, Pollution and the Internet,” [1] states that “…the information industry is sharply at odds with its image of sleek efficiency and environmental friendliness.” James Glanz, the article’s author describes, along with other sustainability issues, the very wasteful use of energy and the numerous air quality violations by data centers. While a bit lengthy as a news article it’s a good update for those interested in the infrastructure and workings of information technology.
I still operate with the belief that we can, for example, support sustainability by doing without paper in much of our business and communication…yet I’m drawn to watch that I not, in the process, create other “poison-the-environment” solutions. Just sayin…
Ray Siderius, OSM Director
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120923&moc.semityn.www&pagewanted=print
