Five Worthy Reads: Greener IT Starts Here: How AI Is Transforming Operational Efficiency
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we learn more about how AI transforms sustainability in the enterprise.
As enterprises accelerate their digital journeys, IT teams are under pressure to deliver faster, smarter, and more sustainable operations. Traditional approaches to optimizing infrastructure, reducing energy use, and managing resources often fall short in today’s complex, hybrid environments. This is where AI-driven intelligence becomes a game-changer—turning raw operational data into actionable insights that help organizations cut waste, lower costs, and shrink their carbon footprint without compromising performance.
From predicting workloads to automating routine tasks, AI is reshaping how modern IT ecosystems function. Intelligent systems can identify inefficiencies in real time; optimize capacity; and ensure that data centers, cloud resources, and networks run leaner and greener. As sustainability becomes a core business mandate, AI not only boosts operational efficiency but also positions IT teams as key drivers of an enterprise’s environmental commitments.
Here are our top reads to help you understand more:
1)How artificial intelligence can drive real sustainability
This article discusses how AI can power real sustainability by making digital operations much more efficient. It highlights how AI-driven tools like sensors for energy grids and digital twins can optimize resources and reduce environmental impact.
2)Power of Green Capabilities and Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding How and When Green Innovation Promotes Sustainability
This article explores how green innovation helps small- to medium-sized enterprises improve their sustainability performance and shows that this relationship becomes stronger when companies build green knowledge-sharing practices and develop green dynamic capabilities. It highlights that AI acts as an important enabler, amplifying the positive impact of these capabilities on sustainability.
3) Artificial intelligence (AI) for good? Enabling organizational change towards sustainability
This article examines how firms are using AI to advance their sustainability strategies by studying 24 companies. It proposes an integrative model highlighting how aligning AI initiatives with sustainability goals, robust data management, and system integration are key to making AI-driven sustainability effective.
4) AI's Role In Enhancing Sustainability For Technology Companies
The article argues that AI gives tech companies powerful tools to support sustainability, from planning and monitoring to reporting and compliance. Using AI for sustainability doesn’t just help the environment—it can make operations more efficient, reduce costs, create new business and service opportunities, and give companies a competitive edge.
This study uses text analysis techniques to build an index for measuring AI adoption and evaluates sustainable development performance (TDP) by combining financial, environmental, and social indicators. It then examines how AI influences a company’s TDP through both theoretical analysis and empirical evidence.
As businesses navigate an increasingly competitive landscape, the role of AI in driving operational excellence becomes indispensable. Beyond efficiency, AI enables more sustainable operations, reducing waste, lowering energy consumption, and supporting responsible resource management. The future of operational efficiency is not just assisted by AI, it is guided by it, with sustainability at its core.
Written by:
Meghna S Menon
Analyst Relations Associate