Green IT and climate change
With the discussion about CO2-tax, the issue of consistently implementing green IT is also gaining new significance. This is because global digitalization consumes vast amounts of energy. Every email, every search query contributes to the server load. Clemens Rohde from the Fraunhofer Institute in Karlsruhe says: "The energy requirement of data centers in Germany is currently around 10 to 15 TWh. Converted into equivalents, this is roughly equivalent to the CO2-emissions that we have in air traffic in Germany." A company like Google, for example, has the energy requirements of a city of 200,000 inhabitants - and if the internet were a country, it would have the sixth largest energy requirements in the world.
In future, the only way to be on the safe side is to consistently reduce the energy consumption of your data centers. Or those who consistently rely on renewable energies for operation. Both apply to b.r.m., for example: We have optimized our servers with regard to green IT, and we only use renewable energies for operation. On the other hand, if you don't do this, the introduction of a CO2-tax will simply be more expensive in future.