Yesterdays BBC NewsNight featured a report on energy aware computing and how companies such as IBM, Cisco or Google try to tackle the increasing amount of energy consumption caused by large data centres in order to provide service to the users. Figures estimate that by the year 2020, the carbon emissions of the IT industry will be higher than airline traffic and that it’s already as high as the car industry.

You can find the report about 31 minutes into the show on BBC’s iPlayer here.

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