This week on the Green IT roundup we look at the growth of power demand in data centers even as energy costs rise, how new startups are using data and analytics to reduce home energy usage to offset the increasing costs of renting and a look at a slide-show of the "smartest cities" on the planet and how they have been affected by the economic slowdown.

Global census shows data center power demand grew 63% in 2012

This week's Green IT Roundup includes the announcement of the 2012 Cleantech list, AT&T expanding its use of Bloom Energy fuel cells and tips for SMBs to start with a Green IT strategy.

Global Cleantech 100 List Unveiled

This week's Green IT roundup covers Google buying wind power for its new data center, a response to the New York Times data center series and some common myths about end of life IT decisions.

The six myths of IT end-of-life decisions 

‘don’t worry about it now’ and similar mistakes when planning your end of life IT strategy.

This week's IT Roundup highlights Google Chrome's new do-not-track setting, Intel's futuristic approach for doing away with passwords, desktop operating systems install base, and virus-infected PCs on the factory floor.

This week's Green IT roundup includes tips from 3M on how your company can reduce its energy usage, new photos from Apple's new solar farm in North Carolina, and news that green jobs are growing the quickest in "red" states.

3M & Others share secrets for energy savings

3M shared some of their secrets that other businesses can use to reduce the amount of energy they are consuming at a recent energy efficiency summit. 

This week's IT roundup dives into the incredible growth of mobile operating systems, the growing demand for mobile applications and the launch of Windows Server 2012.

Android, iOS growing 10 times faster than PCs did in the 1980s

Worldwide adoption of smartphones in China and emerging markets is driving the growth.

This week’s Green IT Roundup includes: NYSE Euronext retains carbon-neutral status with Green IT, PNC to Open net-zero energy bank in 2013, Department of Veterans Affairs expects to save $3.5 million over the next five years with its new energy management system, and The U.S. Postal Service saves millions in energy cost by implementing a robust energy measurement system and practical steps. 

This week’s Green IT Roundup features:  London’s green Olympics outpaced in 2016, Cloud Computing offers greater efficiency and agility delivering IT services, and The Road to energy savings for small and medium businesses.

This week’s Green IT Roundup includes: A new data center design boasts the world’s most efficient cooling system, Energy Efficiency is as  important for branding as for the bottom line, and United Nations praise London Olympics for meeting all of their sustainability targets.

This week’s Green IT Roundup features: A CIO that is always taking into consideration environmental sustainability when making IT decisions, and CIOs who want to go green face a jumble of overlapping industry standards. Sue Chiang, pollution prevention co-director of the Oakland, California-based Center for Environmental Health, spoke with CIO Journal about how IT departments can make their work greener.