The Edgy Nature of Green IT

While the tech-giants such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook thrive at unprecedented corporate scales, society still struggles with upscaling. Significantly, this overview was completed when world records were set for planetary warmth. These records, and the violent storms the oppressive heat has spawned, signal that unabated average global thermal increases may threaten humanity if protracted. The world awaits large-scale innovations in producing and using energy to maintain human sustainability. While well exceeding the corporate IT scale, this challenge is highly significant to the IT Industry, which increasingly depends on a massively growing energy appetite. IT innovations at the edge may eventually fuel innovation at scale.