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Chief information officers (CIO’s) are split on whether outsourced IT operations should count towards an organisation’s total carbon footprint, according to a Fujitsu Services survey.

While the majority of the CIOs preferred to count outsourced IT operations as part of their carbon footprint, almost a quarter believed the opposite and wanted the contracting company to become responsible. The survey was of 100 CIOs in UK companies employing more than 1000 people.

Fujitsu Services, as a provider of outsourcing services, said industry leaders should work together to agree common standards for calculating carbon footprints.

It’s a debate that is set to continue, in the meantime, focus on how efficient operationally (and in terms of power) you are being with your data center space and power. Are their small changes that you could make to your infrastructure to reduce power and cooling? Reducing those legacy disk shelves? Switching the screensaver to blank? Removing the second power adaptor to the development machines?

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