"As 2025 draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on how dramatically the conversation around IT sustainability has shifted in the past 12 months. This has been a year of transition - not because enterprises have suddenly become experts in sustainable IT, but because they've finally stopped treating it as a peripheral topic. For the first time in my career, sustainability is no longer the "add-on" to IT strategy - it's now a structural pillar shaping procurement, infrastructure planning, lifecycle decisions and"
"For years, sustainability lived primarily within environmental or corporate responsibility teams. But in 2025, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and even CFOs became direct participants in the sustainability conversation. IT estates - datacentres, devices, cloud workloads, servers, networks, storage and the entire end-to-end lifecycle - are now recognised as major contributors to emissions, waste and resource consumption. Boards started asking different questions. Instead of, "Do we have a sustainability plan?", they started asking "How is our IT estate affecting our net-zero trajectory?""
In 2025 sustainability moved from a peripheral add-on to a structural pillar influencing procurement, infrastructure planning, lifecycle decisions and transformation roadmaps. CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and CFOs became direct participants, with IT estates recognised as major contributors to emissions, waste and resource use. Boards shifted focus to how IT affects net-zero trajectories rather than whether a plan exists. Progress has been uneven: some organisations advanced, others stagnated, and many remained confused about meaningful, measurable IT sustainability. Decision-making began to emphasise measurable energy reductions and documented outcomes over headline claims.
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