Best of LinkedIn: Sustainability & Green ICT CW 18/ 19

Over the past two weeks in Sustainability & Green ICT, conversations evolved from aspiration to execution. Carbon transparency became a performance metric, cloud and AI providers unveiled greener features, and a vibrant community showcased practical playbooks for decarbonising software, hardware, and data-center operations.

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April 30, 2025

Sustainability & Green ICT

Thomas Allgeyer

Methodology: Every two weeks we collect most relevant posts on LinkedIn for selected topics and create an overall summary only based on these posts. If you´re interested in the single posts behind, you can find them here: https://linktr.ee/thomasallgeyer. Have a great read!

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Green AI & Responsible AI

Leaders warned that unchecked model scaling could erase climate gains; calls grew to make “energy per inference” a core benchmark
A new Qwen3-8B model reignited the accuracy-versus-energy debate, highlighting the trade-offs engineers must manage
Events in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris centred on Sustainable AI, advancing tooling such as CodeCarbon for real-time emissions tracing
Thought leaders reframed IT performance around carbon reduction, positioning Responsible AI as both an ethical and operational mandate

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Green Software Engineering & Tools

The Software Carbon Intensity framework gained traction as the de-facto standard for measuring application-level emissions
Ecograder, CO2.js integrations, and Green Software Foundation courses equipped developers with granular insights and accreditation
Climate Product Management Playbook V2 added 38 actionable practices, bridging product road-maps with sustainability KPIs
Green Codes launched an upgraded EHS suite, proving that compliance platforms can double as carbon-reduction engines

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Sustainable Cloud & Data Centers

AWS enhanced its Carbon Footprint Tool with automated feeds and regional granularity, answering enterprise demands for audit-grade data
Singapore’s Green Data Center Roadmap emerged as a global reference for low-carbon digital expansion in humid geographies
Flexera extended its cloud-sustainability module, aligning with FinOps guidance to optimise both spend and emissions
Practitioners showcased converged FinOps + GreenOps playbooks, promoting “carbon cost” as the new decision lens for workload placement

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Policy, Regulation & Standards

Europe’s BEREC workshop underscored the urgency of energy-efficient network design and cross-industry standards
Germany’s newly formed Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation placed Green IT at cabinet level, signalling regulatory tailwinds

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Partnerships & Inclusion

A public-private initiative in Cambridgeshire linked digital-inclusion goals with green infrastructure roll-out, setting a template for equitable decarbonisation
Schrödinger deepened collaborations to power science workloads on energy-efficient compute, blending research and sustainability ambitions

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Events & Community Momentum

Green IO conferences in New York and Berlin shifted from keynote rhetoric to hands-on GreenOps clinics featuring start-ups like Greenpixie
The Green IT Conference 2025 opened registration, aiming to unify software, cloud, and hardware professionals under a single sustainability charter
GitHub’s Climate Action Plan highlighted 60k open-source projects, amplifying crowd-sourced innovation for carbon-negative tech

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