Green Computing – An Analysis of Energy Consumption and Carbon Footprint of Computing Systems

Green computing technology looks for the efficient utilization of computing resources. Utilization of energy in the computing systems like PCs, Laptop, Cell Phones and Data Centres is one of the important needs today, as 3% of the total Carbon dioxide footprint is produced from IT sector. The objective of this article is to evaluate and measure the energy expended every day by various computing devices resulting in the emission of carbon dioxide.