4%
of global electricity consumption comes from ICT1
20%
more energy consumed by data centres in 2030 than in 2020- a 13 per cent increase in environmental footprint2
99
million liters of water can be consumed by a large semiconductor factory every day3
...so let's get to work!
This is where the competence center Green ICT @ FMD comes into play. Because creating sustainable information and communication technology (ICT) requires many helping hands.
Our services:
- Know-how transfer in the creation of life cycle inventory models, life cycle assessments and calculations of the carbon footprint of products and processes
- Advice on more environmentally sustainable components and systems for sensor edge cloud applications and communication infrastructures
- More environmentally friendly manufacturing processes for microelectronic components through material substitution and energy savings in clean rooms
- Provision and plausibility checks for life cycle assessment data sets from the above-mentioned areas
Are you in?
For researchers and curious minds:
Research
Further education
Basics: what is ICT?
Survey on environmental sustainability in the ICT sector
We would like to thank all companies and start-ups for their participation and for helping us to improve our offer! The survey is in German language.
- The Shift Project, Climate Crisis: The unsustainable use of online Video – The practical case study of online video, 2019 ↩︎
- Aslan, T. et al.: Toward climate neutral data centers: Greenhouse gas inventory, scenarios, and strategies. In: iScience, Volume 28, Issue 1 (2025). Link ↩︎
- TSMC (2021). 2021 Sustainability Report. e-all.pdf (tsmc.com) ↩︎
