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

Over the past two weeks LinkedIn discussions shifted from awareness to execution. Practitioners unveiled concrete tools for measuring digital emissions, investors mobilised fresh capital for climate tech, and regional ecosystems staked their claim as green-innovation hubs. The momentum shows Sustainability & Green ICT moving decisively toward scalable, revenue-aligned impact.

Date

June 25, 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 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

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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

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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

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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

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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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