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The Cleanest Data Centers Are Ones That Aren’t Built At All
Jun 22, 2020
Circular Economy for Data Center Lifecycle
Consumption of environmental resources that are critical to data centers are becoming increasingly scarce as the demand for data centers, and their 24x7x365 resilient operation, continues to grow.
Digital transformation is a necessity to keep society running, especially in times of disaster such as the mass shutdowns to reduce transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the disease affected more people in the months following its initial discovery, a massive surge in the global usage of digital infrastructure was observed.
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The Cleanest Data Centers Are Ones That Aren’t Built At All
Susanna Kass, Data Center Advisor to UN Sustainable Development, writes how we must deliberately depart from linear practices and embrace end to end sustainability throughout the life cycle of data centers. See the original post here. Circular...
Modernization Versus New Build Data Centers
What's the real carbon cost? With current global circumstances pointing to ever-growing demand for capacity, the industry must use every means possible to reduce its carbon emissions. Modernization of data centers, which reuses existing buildings while expanding...
Supercomputer Power Being Used to Tackle The World’s Biggest Challenges From COVID-19 to Climate Change
On Monday March 23rd, 2020 the data center and technology industry came together to confront the threat of COVID-19 with the announcement of a major initiative to make supercomputer resources available for research into the virus.The COVID-19 High Performance...
Data Centers and Carbon: Can Data Centers Be More Sustainable
As the world economy moves to decarbonize, how does an industry built on turning energy into data, faced with an insatiable demand for its output, seek to provide resilience against climate change? For there to be a tomorrow, today’s reality demands new...
Most Enterprises Waste About Half of Their Data Center Server Capacity
The numbers are staggering: most enterprises waste 40-50% of server capacity, according to a new study by 451 Research. Why are so many executives struggling to optimize IT spend? Let's take a closer look at the findings from this 451 Research study and the steps...
The Journey to Sustainability, Efficiency & Virtualization
Serverfarm’s Data Center Infrastructure Management Timeline Decades ago, building a data center was a big commitment. There were baked-in inefficiencies in both powering and cooling the space and often no flexibility, leaving enterprises stuck with expensive,...