[AusNOG] Internode goes Carbon Neutral

[Mark Prior]

Gaurab Raj Upadhaya wrote:

> The company, which has over 170,000 subscribers Australia-wide, sources
> 100% of its electricity needs from renewable energy, and has molded its
> equipment upgrade purchasing decisions towards energy efficiency and
> sustainability.


While it's nice to see people buying green power what would probably be 
nicer is to use less of the damn stuff in the first place.

I think that Apple have a reasonable approach when they say you should 
consider the whole process and not just concentrate on a small part of 
it (although it's hard to influence what the end consumer does once the 
product is in their hands and out of your control). In that context then 
reducing the power consumption of the network, data centres, etc is as 
important, if not more important, than buying renewable power and then 
potentially wasting it through inefficient IT processes. At a recent 
LINX meeting Lex Coors of Interxion mentioned that they had UPSes from 
two different suppliers and while it was difficult to measure the 
efficiency of each they were surprised to discover how inefficient one 
manufacturer was compared to another.

Mark.