Green Computing

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includes your organization’s supply and distribution networks’ use of energy, as

price increases there will hurt you as well.)

With all of this going on, it’s very unlikely that energy prices will drop, and,

conversely, it is probable that they will rise steadily, if not sharply. The only seri-

ous potentially mitigating circumstance is the arrival of another big recession,

similar to the 2008 credit crunch, and there is a good case to be made that very

high oil prices at the time were a major contributor. You don’t want to be the

one to tell the rest of your organization that your IT department can keep using

lots of energy because more credit crunch–type recessions are likely to come

along and impose a cap on the price. ...