Green IT

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Perhaps, we thought the rules were different in cyberspace. All those free webapps, mail and storage are generating huge amounts of data and gigantic computational needs. To serve this demand, huge power guzzlers (read data centers) are springing up by the day. So, while we sit in our offices thinking that the code we write hardly makes a dent to the ecology - vast amounts of carbon is being eaten up for computation and data storage. I hardy gave these things a thought - before reading this insightful article. That's the first post on Shyamal and Sanjeev's new blog on 'Green IT'. While we can do little to reduce our dependence on this cyberworld and prevent a lot of junk data from being created, we can still look for engineering solutions to keep the problem in check. Looking forward to such solutions from Sanjeev and Shyamal.