WASHINGTON-Government information technology managers need to look at green IT both from a defensive and an offensive perspective, author and Yale University professor Daniel Esty said this week at the Green Computing Summit. Esty, a former top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, and an adviser to the Obama campaign on environmental issues, said that with IT consuming 2 percent of the nation's energy supply-on par with the airline industry-it's important to take significant defensive steps to reduce the energy consumed by data centers and IT systems in the public and private sectors.

 

 

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