eWeek Europe: Government Demands Green IT Metrics As Standard

Suppliers who try to charge end-users extra for supplying metrics about the carbon impact and energy usage of their equipment will get short-shrift from government departments such as the Department of Work and Pensions.

Speaking at the Green IT '09 conference in London late last week, the director of supplier relationship and performance management for the UK's Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), Frank Tudor, said that he would not tolerate being asked to pay extra for green services.

According to Tudor, IT suppliers are getting better at developing green products and services but some still think it should be an add on to existing offerings rather than integral to design.

"I am absolutely passionate that green IT is part of the core service offerings for all the IT industry," he said. "I somewhat get obsessed when service providers turn around to me and say: 'Thanks for spending hundreds of millions of pounds with us each year - now we want to sell you a service to tell you what the carbon footprint of that is'."

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