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“ Reducing climate change is critical to the sector’s future success” — Andy Brierley, Rackspace Technology
cooling costs in the data centre, and only a few of the capabilities of these servers are ever fully utilised. There must be smarter initiatives put in place.”
SUCCESS CRITICAL But data centres themselves are more bullish that solutions can be found.
businesses move forward and seen as
Andy Brierley, UK GM at Rackspace
a positive process, as opposed to one
Technology, identifies four areas
that is a burden. There is a misconcep-
which already look promising: liquid
tion that having more servers is the
cooling, indirect outside air-cooling
way forward. While they are able to
technology, data centre infrastructure
store large volumes of data, they do not
management (DCIM) and data centre
reduce the power needed and increase
consolidation [see box for details].
JANUARY 2021