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What is green software development?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Also known as sustainable software development, green software development<\/a> is a new and important discipline that applies to software practices and architecture, climate science, data centre and hardware design, and electricity markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green software development<\/a> refers to software that has been developed with the goal of limiting its negative effects on the environment<\/strong>, particularly in terms of energy consumption. It aims to reduce its subsequent carbon footprint<\/a> by generating fewer greenhouse gases, making it kinder to our environment and positively impact the world around us by operating as efficiently as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The importance of green software development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The concept of \u2018green technology\u2019 <\/span><\/a>has been floating around for the past two decades, but it is only recently that it has begun to build meaningful traction. The green tech and sustainability market <\/a>was valued globally at $11.2 billion back in 2020, but is expected to climb to $36.6 billion by 2025 with an annual growth rate of 26.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data centres use huge amounts of energy to run, sadly contributing to the global climate issues<\/strong> that we are experiencing today. Between 2010 and 2020<\/a>, global data centre electricity use was around 200-250 TWh – 1% of the global energy demand. <\/p>\n\n\n

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It is therefore clear how important it is to curb global energy use<\/a> in digital technologies<\/strong> given its monumental saturation of the total demand on our planet. Only through continued and sustained efforts within the IT industry<\/strong> will this happen, making green software development and practices more crucial now than it has ever been before in our past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The principles of green software development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The principles of green software are an established set of fundamental guidelines that engineers must follow when developing and implementing software applications.<\/p>\n\n\n

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What are the benefits of building sustainable software?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The environmental benefits of green software developments are clear. Greener tech means less energy usage<\/strong> and better efficiency<\/strong>. In turn, this reduces carbon emissions<\/strong> which positively contributes to reducing the damage to our environment. This is a widely accepted concept that everyone is on board with. Everyone in this world has a personal and collective responsibility in fighting climate change within their own personal sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as these aforementioned environmental benefits, there are further sustainable software benefits that help to make an excellent case for green software development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n