Gathering and understanding such data will, the paper says, inform strategy and save on resources in energy use, space and time.
Data centers are where the physical infrastructure of the Internet intersect with digital services driving economic efficiencies and acting as sustainability enablers.
Digitalization is a major driver of decarbonization. According to a 2022 Accenture survey: “Delivering on the sustainability agenda will be impossible without technology. Every respondent in the survey of 560 companies with over US$1 billion in revenue said technology was either ‘important’ or ‘very important’ for achieving their sustainability targets.”
Within this, the paper says, roles of CIOs and senior data center managers in meeting corporate sustainability targets are undisputed.
But they cannot act by separately looking at half the picture. Greater collaboration based on shared data is vital. Where there is so much to evaluate, surely it is time to define the development of future data centers by the scope for ecological sustainability.
