ITWire

Regional ICT specialist Pacnet is more than quadrupling the size of its CloudSpace1 data centre in Sydney, apparently unfazed by the likely impact of the carbon tax and resulting electricity price rises estimated to be as high as 16 per cent.

Global software giant Microsoft has turned to a Sydney software company for the smarts to track and manage its carbon footprint and energy and resources usage worldwide.

The passage of the Government's carbon tax bills through the lower house could be enough to unleash a fresh torrent of green IT initiatives and also place additional demands on the public service to urgently develop the information systems needed to administer and monitor the new regime.