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Dell Green IT for Today’s IT Teams: How to Build a Greener and Efficient Tech Stack

Publish Date: 10-31-2025
 

Sustainability is one of the most pressing issues facing our world today. With carbon emissions contributing to climate change and millions of tons of material waste ending up in landfills and oceans yearly, a rising number of consumers say that a company's eco-awareness is a key factor in deciding whether or not they'll give them their business.

Green IT is the practice of implementing eco-conscious practices into your electronics infrastructure, and it's an important part of addressing global sustainability challenges. From using biodegradable shipping material to investing in renewable power consumption, green IT solutions help companies reduce their carbon footprint, build products more efficiently, and improve their IT sustainability efforts. 

This article covers the need for green IT in today's business world, and how the Dell Green IT strategy provides actionable steps for companies to develop an intelligent green IT strategy. 

The Imperative for Green IT

Green IT builds sustainability into the entire life cycle of your IT systems, hardware, and operations. It involves designing, manufacturing, and disposing of all IT components in an environmentally responsible manner, and aims to reduce the energy consumption associated with your IT processes. Green IT also minimizes harmful material waste through reuse and recycling processes, reducing your carbon footprint and creating a more eco-friendly IT posture. 

While sustainability is certainly a pressing issue for our world, there are many operational benefits for companies that develop a green IT strategy. A few pressures highlighting the business need for green IT practices are: 

  • Electricity costs. New tariffs, increasing demand, natural gas spikes, and growing power consumption due to massive data centers dedicated to AI have all caused the cost of electricity to rise by 6.2% since 2024 — more than twice the rate of inflation. Green IT practices, such as developing green data centers, can significantly reduce the cost of power consumption and develop a more efficient tech stack, especially as companies devote more resources to AI. 

  • Stakeholder expectations. Consumers expect businesses to prioritize sustainability. A 2021 study found that 66% of consumers said they would stop doing business with a company that neither had sustainability credentials nor planned to focus on eco-consciousness within the next three years. Energy efficient IT practices help demonstrate your commitment to sustainability, aligning your social priorities with your customers. 

  • Tightening regulations. Depending on location, companies may face increasing regulatory pressures to build sustainability into their business processes, even facing costly penalties if they fail to comply. Green IT practices help companies meet regulatory standards, so that they can avoid violations — and even profit from certain sustainability incentives.

Raw material costs are another reason that companies are going green with their IT processes. Tariffs, shifting global policies, and inflation are making many raw materials more expensive. Green IT practices integrate reused or recycled material into the manufacturing of new products. This reduces the cost of producing sustainable tech, all while reducing the amount of waste that goes to the landfill. 

Assess Your Current Tech Stack

There's no question that building sustainable devices can result in significant IT cost savings and other operational benefits. To identify your most pressing needs first, start your tech stack optimization by assessing your current environment:

  • Identify energy consumption hotspots, such as cooling costs for data centers.

  • Audit all hardware lifecycles to see how soon your equipment will need a replacement.

  • Analyze key metrics for green IT assessment, such as recycling rate, CO2 consumption per device, or Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).

Since a significant portion of your power consumption will come from the edge, implementing endpoint monitoring for IT teams will help you track the progress of your sustainability efforts. For example, endpoint monitoring solutions can help you analyze your PUE across your devices, so that you can detect any equipment malfunctions and replace poorly performing equipment. This results in improved energy efficiency and greater IT cost savings.

Building a Greener Foundation With Dell

Dell works alongside companies of all sizes to help them develop an intelligent green IT strategy, and offers a range of solutions for upgrading sustainability tech. Some of Dell's sustainability efforts include:

  • Developing innovative liquid cooling solutions for reduced power consumption

  • Infrastructure upgrades, such as building green data centers with a reduced carbon footprint

  • Responsible waste management initiatives to mitigate the impact of e-waste

  • Implementing biodegradable shipping materials, such as bamboo 

  • Switching to renewable electricity to reduce fossil fuel dependence

Along with Dell's infrastructure and manufacturing solutions, its energy-efficient hardware is designed for optimal performance per watt to help customers lower power and cooling costs. For example, Dell PowerEdge servers and PowerMax storage solutions are ideal for minimizing power consumption and reducing subsequent cooling costs. Another way they're helping to foster a circular economy is with their Dell EcoLoop Pro Series Cases, made from recycled materials.

Intelligent Management & Software

Endpoint management software gives IT teams more granular control over their power consumption, and AI-based solutions are working to offload some AI activities to off-peak hours to lower costs. Combined with cloud migration and computing solutions, the next wave of technological innovation is not only powering companies with greater computing control — it's helping us promote a greener world.

Hands-On: How To Cut Cost and Environmental Wastes

Whether it's cutting back on material waste or implementing renewable electricity to reduce your carbon footprint, green IT is about more than just saving a few trees. These eco-conscious tech practices can help you minimize waste in your production and maximize your IT cost savings — all while appealing to consumers and creating a greener future for all. 

Dell Green IT is leading the way in fostering sustainable practices, and we're here to help you develop a green IT strategy that works for you. To explore how Dell’s end-to-end innovations can help your organization meet your sustainability goals while lowering your operational costs, don’t miss our next session. You’ll walk away with real strategies and tools to make a measurable impact on your sustainability efforts. Sign up for our webinars today.