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