Linköping, SWEDEN
Success Story of tackling energy efficiency issues and minimizing its carbon footprint in ICT sector, where Linköping city decreased its total ICT footprint and reduced energy consumption.
- 8% less energy consumption by the city's data centre. - Decrease of over 30% of city's total ICT footprint in 2013. - No increase in city's total energy consumption despite the increased number of computers, smartphones, projectors, and networked equipment used (40% new equipment between 2008 and 2013 - representing 4,000 new units)
- Measurements on ICT environment's energy consumption, cost, and carbon footprint since 2008 - City data centre run by carbon-neutral hydropower.
- Plans to run a new measurement in 2017