Green IT: Costs and Benefits

This assignment analyzes the debate surrounding Green IT, weighing its potential benefits for the environment and society against the financial costs faced by businesses. It examines factors like the initial investment required for Green IT infrastructure, rapid technological advancements that might render Green IT solutions obsolete, and long-term cost savings through reduced energy consumption and waste disposal. The analysis also explores the environmental impact of Green IT, considering its role in mitigating carbon emissions and electronic waste.

Running head: BUSINESSES CANNOT PROMOTE‘GREENIT ’
Businesses cannot promote‘GreenIT ’

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BUSINESSES CANNOT PROMOTE‘GREENIT ’
For Businesses cannot promote‘GreenIT ’
1. Cost
The Green IT is profitable and beneficial for the environment and the society however
the enterprises will have to spend heavy on the brand new architecture. The architectural
design of the Green IT devices is costlier in comparison to the conventional devices. The
implementation of solar panel requires thousands of dollars, the energy saving devices utilize
less electricity and less water but they are really expensive, difficult to install ans maintain as
well.
2. Rapid tehnology innovation
The technology is changing rapidly. The researchers are working day and night and
inventing new technologies and they are replacing the old green IT technology concept
(Behera, Ratha and Sethi 2017). Therefore the enterprise if adopts the Green IT technology
will go waste and also implementing new Green IT technology will increase the costing.

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Against Businesses cannot promote‘GreenIT ’
1. Checking carbon emission and CHG emissions
The technology resources disposal can wipe out the waste from entering the waste
depot system. The equipments and the system can be recycled and thus can facilitate in
reducing the acuumulation of waste and the costings of the enterprises (Di Salvo et al. 2017).
The carbon emission and the CHG emission thus can be diminished.
2. Saving ots of money
Green IT can save loads of money for the enterprises as they do not have to pay heavy
for purchasing the electronic products.
3. Reduce space of the servers
Cloud computing provides the facility of the virtual servers and this can eliminate the
use of physical server. Thus the enterprises do not have to maintain the physical server and
they do not have to worry about the security breaches.
4. Diminishing the energy costs
Green IT can help reducing the energy, the solar energy can assist the enterprises to
replace the electric energy and the enterprises can use solar energy to run their systems,
scanners and the printers (Au et al. 2017). The use of cloud technology can help to reduce the
electric energy needed for running the physical server. The costing of the company can be
checked by checking the energy consumption.

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Refeences
Au, M.H.A., Castiglione, A., Choo, K.K.R., Palmieri, F. and Li, K.C. eds., 2017. Green,
Pervasive, and Cloud Computing: 12th International Conference, GPC 2017, Cetara, Italy,
May 11-14, 2017, Proceedings (Vol. 10232). Springer.
Behera, A., Ratha, B.K. and Sethi, S., 2017. Green cloud computing: A
survey. IJSEAT, 4(12), pp.763-767.
Di Salvo, A.L., Agostinho, F., Almeida, C.M. and Giannetti, B.F., 2017. Can cloud
computing be labeled as “green”? Insights under an environmental accounting
perspective. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 69, pp.514-526.