The Green IT Guide: Ten Steps Toward Sustainable and Carbon-Neutral IT Infrastructure

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M. HalseyThe Green IT Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8057-7_6

6. Managing Power for Your Existing IT Systems

Mike Halsey¹  

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Genouillac, France

 

In Chapter 2, I showed you the tools you can use to determine how much power your existing IT equipment is using, but this is only half of the story as the companies that make the software for our technology, Microsoft, Apple, and Google, have built-in settings to their software which can also make a difference to power consumption.

You might also be surprised at how much of an impact these changes can make, if they can highlight some of the ways we’ve gotten used to using technology over the decades, and ...