This week’s Green IT Roundup includes: The UK Technology Strategy Board launching a £25 million infrastructure competition for smarter cities, HP announcing details for an architecture for a data center that regulates no net energy from traditional power grids, and Game-playing can be a central too to help companies get their employees involved in delivering on firm-wide sustainability.

UK Government Searches For The City Of Tomorrow
UK’s Technology Strategy Board launched a £25 million infrastructure competition for smarter cities.  This project hopes to enable businesses to test solutions for connecting and integrating city systems and allow cities to explore new approaches to delivering a good local economy and quality of life, while reducing the environmental footprint.

HP Has Announced a ‘Net-Zero Energy’ Data Center Architecture
HP released details for an architecture for a data center that regulates no net energy from traditional power grids.  Based on its research, HP aims to provide businesses and societies around the world with the potential to operate data centers using local renewable resources, removing dependencies such as location, energy supply and costs.

What sustainability efforts could learn from Angry Birds
Playing  Angry Birds hooks people, focusing them on developing special skills to achieve ever more difficult goals. That type of game-playing can be a central tool to help companies get their employees involved in delivering on firm-wide sustainability goals from zero waste to greening the supply chain.