Best of LinkedIn: Sustainability & Green ICT CW 22/ 23

Over the past fortnight Sustainability and Green ICT moved decisively from pledges to delivery. Investors funded large-scale net-zero infrastructure, engineers published practical toolkits, and policymakers sharpened carbon-reporting expectations. The momentum now rests on translating these pilots into repeatable playbooks for every technology stack.

Date

May 28, 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 Cloud & Infrastructure

Green cloud computing positioned as a core business strategy delivering simultaneous emissions and cost gains
Saudi Arabia and DataVolt unveiled a USD 5 billion plan for a 1.5 GW net zero AI data centre in NEOM
Microsoft reported a 23 percent year-on-year emissions rise despite cloud growth, intensifying calls for transparent targets
Green Software Foundation released Policy Radar and a Sustainable IT toolkit, giving teams early visibility on emerging regulations
Cooling and heat-reuse breakthroughs, including Ecolab’s 3D TRASAR and novel heat-recovery designs, tackle rising thermal loads

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Green AI & Machine Learning

Experts urged building energy-efficiency and carbon metrics into model design instead of simply scaling compute
Forecasts warned AI power demand could equal 22 percent of US residential electricity by 2028 without corrective action
Responsible-AI frameworks projected up to 10 percent global-emission cuts by 2030, turning sustainability into a profit lever
GreenPT and similar approaches promoted full-stack ownership to maximise transparency and optimise emissions
Budget pressures emerged as a brake on green-AI roll-outs, reinforcing the value of efficiency-led cost savings

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Carbon Accounting & ESG

Supplier-level footprint data highlighted as a decisive lever for meeting science-based targets
Europe’s Digital Product Passports aim to make emissions data traceable, credible and monetisable
Azure optimisation case cut costs 26 percent and emissions 50 percent, proving the financial upside of cloud efficiency
German Environment Agency warned ICT could reach 26 percent of national emissions by 2030, adding urgency for granular reporting
Podcasts and developer forums advanced avoided-emissions accounting to capture climate value beyond direct footprints

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Climate Tech Investment & Policy

Trawa closed a EUR 24 million Series A to scale green-energy services for European SMEs
Investors shifted focus toward hardware-based and resilience-oriented climate-tech bets for the next decade
Industrial leaders stressed that mass-market clean-tech manufacturing is essential for Germany’s competitive future
Commentators called for data-backed proofs of concept to replace marketing-heavy climate-tech pitches
Founder wellbeing surfaced as a strategic issue, with mental-health support deemed critical for sustained innovation

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Energy & Renewable Integration

Nepal outlined a framework to channel abundant renewables into digital-economy growth with cabinet-level support
US collaborations recorded a 60 percent drop in green-hydrogen costs, accelerating commercial viability
Software-architecture summits showcased flexible digital solutions as accelerators of grid decarbonisation

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