In partnership with Accenture, GitHub, and ThoughtWorks, Microsoft today announced the launch of the Green Software Foundation, a nonprofit established with the Linux Foundation to build an ecosystem ...

Green software engineering is an emerging discipline consisting of best practices to build applications that reduce carbon emissions. The information technology (IT) sector—which includes hardware, ...

Deploying sustainable software practices can reduce emissions and infuse greater efficiency, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness, says director of green software and ecosystems at Intel, Asim Hussain.

Software is “green” when it’s written and managed in ways that minimize the amount of greenhouse gas emitted as a consequence of its operation. As a general guide for the development of green software ...

Microsoft is backing a new non-profit, The Green Software Foundation, as part of an industry-wide effort to clean up code so that it's not wasting electricity on laptops, desktops or in the cloud. To ...

A Salesforce executive is calling on coders to consider climate change when writing their software. “Even something as seemingly disconnected from the environment, such as building or hosting a ...

Much has been written about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from data centers. Current estimates place data centers at consuming nearly 3% of the world’s total electricity – on par with ...