Who'll control green IT?

An interesting brief from Sun at Forrester’ London office led to the question "who'll control green IT?"  The answer given was Finance rather than the CIO.

Increasingly IT operations reports to Finance and Finance takes care of building facilities and governance—three things that play strongly on the green agenda. Finance will see green IT in terms of cost reduction gained through energy efficiency. A green IT strategy must therefore pull facilities into the mix as these are the guys that sign off the power bill each month and are acutely aware (or should be) just how much money is spent every quarter on energy.Facilities understands the impact that desktop computing and desktop gadgets will have on the energy bill and will need to work with sourcing for example, to deploy the right procurement framworks. But with an eye on green governance and upcoming legislation (check out the UK Energy white paper for an example) Finance has a key role to play in making green IT happen. Does our research and the way we position it recognize this?                                                                            .