Best of LinkedIn: Sustainability & Green ICT CW 26/ 27

Green Software & Sustainable IT

• Green IO Munich spotlighted energy-proportional coding, GreenOps success cases, and the integration of FinOps with sustainability to embed carbon metrics in software business decisions

• Software Carbon Intensity for AI Workshop report launched, giving teams a methodology to benchmark and track the footprint of AI workloads

• Sustainable IT Impact Assessment (SIIA) tool introduced, enabling companies to quantify end-to-end digital emissions and prioritise reduction levers across the IT stack

AI & Sustainability

• CID framework (Consumption, Intensity, Direction) gained traction as a practical lens for lowering the environmental cost of AI systems while steering models toward beneficial use cases

• Aurora Climate Lab and peer accelerators showcased AI-enabled climate solutions, arguing for financing structures that reward long-term impact rather than rapid exits

• A new green AI data centre in Tajikistan pairs high-performance NVIDIA GPUs with renewable energy, signalling the rise of low-carbon compute infrastructure

Renewable Energy & Climate Tech

• Founder forums in North Carolina and Europe’s World Fund AGM demonstrated growing regional coordination to scale climate tech ventures and share industrial expertise

• Corporate strategists framed climate adaptation and supply-chain resilience as competitive advantages amid water and resource constraints affecting semiconductor production

• State and municipal leaders outlined policy pathways that sustain decarbonisation momentum regardless of shifting federal priorities

Carbon Management & Removal

• Major-tech partnership with a carbon-to-energy startup marked a step toward commercialising engineered removal solutions that couple direct air capture with clean power generation

• Seasoned entrepreneurs pivoted into ventures like Deep Sky, underscoring confidence in the market viability of next-generation carbon capture platforms

Data Centres & Cloud Efficiency

• Fresh research on green cloud architectures showed meaningful cost and carbon savings versus on-premise computing, reinforcing migration to optimised, renewably powered clouds

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