GREEN IT & SUSTAINABILITY
Green goals Green innovation within the data centre is essential if we want our world to stay ‘on’, but as much as the importance of sustainability is no secret, how to get there might not be so clear. Here, Chris Demers, Sustainability Department Manager at Supermicro, offers some practical advice on how we can meet those green credentials and modernise our industry.
16 www.datacentrereview.com Q4 2021
orldwide, modern data centres consume between 1% and 3% of electricity. With a majority of electricity generation coming from fossil fuels in various geographies, the impact of data centres on the environment cannot be ignored. The explosion of data generated at the edge and back-end processing requirements has resulted in additional electricity demands, which produces large quantities of CO2. As data centres are in the process of expanding or new data centres planned, the amount of e-waste is growing to over 50 million metric tonnes per year, according to the United Nations. At the same time, a reduction in e-waste may not be apparent in reducing power usage, although there is a correlation. The Total Cost to the Environment, or TCE, measures how much a data centre contributes to environmental damage. Several factors
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