With the expansion of IT related transactions, corporations, etc... There is a significant rise of energy consumption. The rise in energy consumption is a huge threat to the environment. With more energy consumption comes a hotter environment. Energy consumption because of IT related things doubles every year. With the increase of energy consumption people find ways to improve computing and removes the threat to the environment, The answer to this is green computing.
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Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. In the article Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices, San Murugesan defines the field of green computing as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment.
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The energy star program was launched October 2006 which impose stricter efficiency requirements for computer equipment, along with a tiered ranking system for approved products. Computer equipments need to have efficient energy distribution so as not to waste energy.
We need to manage our power consumption since a lot of gadgets today drains a lot of power. Managing power helps to keep in check the large energy consumption of various devices. We need to learn to shutdown things we do not use to conserve power and to avoid needless power drain. Only retain things that are essential rather than blasting away with power consumption.
