India, March 9 -- The sustainability task force at our MNC decided it was time for IT to "lead by example." Suddenly, every meeting began with someone asking how we could reduce our energy footprint. The infrastructure team, already juggling three outages and a mysterious humming noise from Rack 42, nodded while quietly panicking.

A week later, the facilities team proudly announced a "cost‑neutral, eco‑positive cooling optimisation initiative." No one knew what that meant, but it sounded harmless. Until we walked into the data centre and found it warmer than a marketing offsite in Goa. Within hours, dashboards showed our servers running suspiciously cooler, resource usage and energy savings skyrocketing. Sustainability cheere...