For large enterprises, commercial data center providers, and cloud companies, GHG emissions reduction should start with an evaluation of the design and construction of the buildings from which digital services are provided. It must also be considered that a new data center is not always a greenfield project.
Smart developers avoid additional embodied carbon costs by making use of modernization and upgrades to existing buildings, including those that are not currently data centers. In existing aging data centers that are suitable for modernization, the shell remains the same and is retrofitted with the latest power and cooling infrastructure using design thinking that provides best ratings for GHG carbon emissions.
