as a product, not waste. If IT is seen as a product, it can be collected, ethically refurbished & recycled and put back into the circular economy by an organisation like ethical ITAD Sunscreen IT. Just as businesses have a responsibility to properly consume and dispose of corporate-owned IT, so do individuals. Most people have an old laptop or two and various phones sitting in drawers and cupboards at home. Enlisting the support of a corporate ITAD is an obvious way to recycle those devices, too. Which leads me back to the beginning of this article and Adidas. The knee-jerk position in many IT departments is to throw away old IT and buy new kit instead – as if it were a pair of trainers. With the solutions we have today, this is no longer necessary. Tools are there to help consume IT in a more responsible way. We just have to get on and use them. r Start using approved and accredited IT Asset Disposal organisations to recycle hardware properly. This is a big hole in most organisations’ IT strategies. In fact, in 2021 only 17.4% of e-waste was recycled responsibly [Source: IISD]. When choosing an ITAD partner, pick one with the right up-to-date certifications, including ADISA to standard 8.0 and ISO 14001 and ISO 27001, and view IT Environmental excellence KLON-02, Kao Data’s second Harlow high performance data centre engineered for AI and advanced computing, has been awarded BREEAM ‘Excellent’ status based on its environmental performance. The facility is powered by both 100% certified renewable energy and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), an approach that reduces 90% of net CO2 from its backup power generators and helps customers directly reduce Scope 3 emissions associated with their compute. The new 10MW, NVIDIA DGX Ready data centre reinforces the standing of Kao Data’s Harlow campus as one of the UK’s preeminent advanced computing locations for organisations working within AI, financial services, cloud and life sciences, providing an additional 3,400m2 of high-density, scalable, technical space and room for up to 1800 racks of GPU-powered IT equipment (ITE) across four Technology Suites. Organisations can fully customise their deployments within the data centre, incorporating liquid-cooled hardware where necessary, and taking advantage of the campus’s world-class connectivity and rapid on-ramps into all major cloud providers. Paul Finch, Chief Technology Officer of Kao Data, said: “Driven by AI, rack and power densities are increasing at an unprecedented rate, so it’s critical that the data centres of the future can accommodate the latest breakthroughs in GPU-powered computing and are ready to embrace the benefits of liquid cooling. By pushing the boundaries of our original design envelope and embracing a culture of continuous innovation, KLON-02 sets a new standard for industrial-scale data centres, and one which will directly help our customers reduce the environmental impact of their workloads.” Free estimates Px3 Ltd is offering free access to its online End User Carbon Footprint Estimator so that organisations can estimate the GHG emissions generated by computing devices without having to invest in the company’s granular calculators and device comparison apps. Conceived and developed by Dr. Justin Sutton-Parker, CEO of Px3 and Research Fellow with the University of Warwick, the application enables organisations to quickly estimate the lifespan carbon footprint of end user computing devices such as notebooks, desktops, tablets and monitors as part of a sustainable IT strategy. px3.org.uk Cloud sustainability Arrow Electronics has updated its ArrowSphere cloud management platform for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud monitoring with new assessment and management tools covering sustainability (GreenOps), cost optimisation (FinOps) and security (SecOps). The addition of these three new dashboards provides an aggregated view of all cloud accounts that a channel partner manages, helping them to improve cost management and security analysis and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The GreenOps sustainability dashboard helps channel partners build solutions that have a minimal impact on the environment through extensive reporting capabilities and a global monitoring tool for measuring the carbon footprint of their cloud activities. The FinOps cost optimisation dashboard helps channel partners and their customers optimise their cloud spend, while the SecOps security dashboard features a security scoring system to identify vulnerabilities. www.arrow.com/globalecs/uk/ platforms/arrowsphere/dashboards/ Hurd mentality Hurd is a free app for the 83% of employees surveyed by Kite Insights that say they want to act on climate change at work. Available on three platforms – Apple, Android and the web – Hurd gives workers an opportunity to anonymously rate their company’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis, share success stories from their workplace, access and use the platform’s free e-learning resources and join a community of like-minded people in other organisations. Mike Fenna, Chief Technology Officer of Hurd, said: “Hurd is a bit like Glassdoor for climate – it amplifies employee voices and improves transparency to help celebrate the best performing organisations and to help others learn from them.” https://hurd.world/ SUSTAINABILITY technologyreseller.co.uk 37
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