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Chapter 5
Building a Green
Device Portfolio
Key Concepts
This chapter presents ideas for planning your purchases of servers, computers,
and other IT devices so that your devices are as green as possible:
• Using green ideas to drive device purchases
• Making small devices do the job of larger ones
• Assessing embodied energy
• Assessing running costs
• Using the Greenpeace Guide
5.1 Introduction
As humans, we like bright, shiny objects. IT devices—from the latest iPhone
to the newest, greenest server—are some of the brightest, shiniest objects
ever invented.
As an IT leader, though, you get to think big—you can plan for big
purchases, not ju