61 percent of IT departments are not accountable for their energy use.
Should they be?
The Register today reported
this figure from an interesting survey by Freeform Dynamics.
In response to the question "is the amount you spend on electricity to run IT
a known quantity, i.e. is it tracked or measured at the moment?"
- 61 percent said no.
- 28 percent said yes.
- 11 percent said no, but IT is cross charged
A typical PC can cost £52 a year in electricity. Servers even more. Across a
fleet of tens of thousands of devices this can be a very major cost. This
research reinforces the intuition that the cost is not being counted.
I recently interviewed dozens of UK CIOs for an HP report and one common
theme was the difficulty of budgeting and accounting for IT costs across the
business, let alone allocating energy costs. The green agenda is becoming more
and more important but this article reveals some of the complexity needed to
address it.
- Matthew Stibbe
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