For any CIO with thousands of servers, measuring Scope 1 and 2 operating carbon cost and Scope 3 embodied and total carbon cost of every component in the supply chain of every server is a huge but necessary undertaking.
Some advise that faster refresh cycles – saying upgrading servers every three years – provides clear benefits in terms of power use, maintenance, support, and performance, saying it is possible to achieve much more performance for the same power footprint.
The demands of high performance compute and its related power density increases provide a perfect example of why communication and collaboration across IT and M+E are the only way to sustainability. It puts server choice, operation, configuration for energy saving and refresh cycles at the heart of the issue.
