Search      

Reduce Energy Costs with Green Computing

Green Computing covers the purchasing and disposal of computers, technology energy use, and using computers to reduce waste. Reducing energy use and using computers to reduce other district energy costs offers the opportunity to bring focus to utility bills and reduce these costs - likely the second largest district expense behind personnel - and to do the right thing for our environment.

For your computing environment, CoSN provides a K-12 specific Energy Use Calculator which estimates energy use and costs for both data center and end user computing infrastructure.

Energy saving tips and resources include:
  • Energy savings certificates from power utility companies
  • Data center (or server closet) cooling
  • Server, networking and storage
  • End user computing
  • Virtualization for data center and virtual desktop infrastructure
  • Cloud computing
  • Printing/copying

Go to CoSN's Green Computing Leadership Initiative

Includes:
  • Energy Use Calculator
  • Quick tips
  • Lots of reference resources
  • CoSN Green Computing Certification
 CoSN Events

 
     

Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 1010
Washington, DC 20005-3599
Toll Free 866.267.8747
Telephone 202.861.2676
Fax 202.393.2011
 

 

 
 
Attribution-Noncommercial