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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2200999/industry-forced-green

The UK government warned today that planned legislation will force the IT industry to clean up its environmental act.

Alan Whitehead, chairman of the Associate Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group, and MP for Southampton Test, told vnunet.com that a climate change bill will come before parliament before the next election that will set carbon budgets every five years.

The goal of the legislation is to cut the UK’s carbon emissions by between 60 and 80 per cent by 2050.

Whitehead maintained that the technology industry will be crucial to achieving these targets.

“The IT industry will change from power hungry to green hungry in a short period of time,” he said.

I think we’re getting there, we need to continue the momentum, continue evolving the platforms as well as sharing best practice, but that will come. Whether legislation will aid this is another thing – with the cost of running a data center increasing, aren’t customer requirements driving the industry to continue improving the energy efficiency anyway?

We’ll see, my only concern is that the levels set become the standard, once you’ve achieved that, you’ve done your job, what we need as a customer and as an industry is to keep improving the way I use the technology and the way the technology is designed from an energy efficiency and recycling standpoint.

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