DATA CENTER SUSTAINABILITY

Research Project on the Environmental Sustainability of Data Centers
By University of Padua and Veneto Region, Italy

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The heavy carbon footprint of a server lifecycle

Few LCA studies are available for data center IT equipment. One of them has been published by Dell and covers the environmental impact of the Dell PowerEdge R740 server, from manufacture through to disposal...

July 15, 2022
Life Cycle Assessment
Carbon footprint

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Data centers and critical raw materials

Data center equipment and in general digital technologies contain significant amounts of materials which are classified as critical due to their economic importance and supply risk...

July 1, 2022
Material resources

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Assessing the carbon footprint of data transmission

Despite the increasing interest in understanding the environmental impact of the Internet, nowadays it is still hard to find studies that do a calculation of the impact of IP traffic based on measurements and well-defined methodologies. To fill this gap, Ficher et al. conducted research...

June 22, 2022
Greenhouse gases
Environment

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Transitioning towards liquid cooling for data centers

Air-cooling has always been the mainstream operational approach for cooling IT equipment in data centers. However, nowadays more and more firms are looking into liquid cooling...

June 9, 2022
New technologies

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Calculating the cradle-to-gate emissions of IoT devices

What are the environmental impacts directly generated by the deployment of IoT devices? A research by T. Pirson and D. Bol from the Catholic University of Louvain tried to answer this question...

June 1, 2022
Greenhouse Gases

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Intel plans massive investments in R&D for sustainable data centers

Intel has announced huge investments in R&D for innovative and sustainable technologies for data centers, starting from a new $700 million "mega lab"...

May 24, 2022
Companies
R&D

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Data Center Nation - Disclosing challenges and opportunities

We have attended Data Center Nation, probably the most important Italian event in the data center industry, where stakeholders of the Italian data center value chain met to share ideas and solutions...

May 20, 2022
Events

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Metrics for a comprehensive assessment of environmental sustainability

Setting goals and strategies toward greater sustainability requires adopting appropriate metrics. Schneider Electric's white paper provides guidance on selecting the most suitable ones...

May 17, 2022
Sustainability
Metrics

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Circular economy thinking for data centers

The sustainability of IT hardware assets is a big issue, especially if we consider the skyrocketing development of the digital sector expected for the near future. The good news is that data center owners and operators are taking action to implement circular economy thinking...

May 12, 2022
e-waste
Circular economy

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Reducing the carbon footprint of global computing

Researchers from academia and industry leaders across multiple ICT sectors are exploring and discussing opportunities to reduce data-driven energy consumption. This was the purpose of the workshop "Climate Implications of Computing and Communications" hosted by MIT...

May 3, 2022
Greenhouse Gases
Energy

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Data centers energy consumption: Google’s take

Reducing energy consumption while increasing the share of renewables is a priority for digital operators, which are trying to reach greater sustainability while lowering purchasing costs. One of the companies that are doing more on this front is probably Google...

April 27, 2022
Energy
Companies

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European data centers: approaches and challenges towards sustainability

In this article published in the web magazine Agenda Digitale, we explain the results of the research we carried out to investigate how European data centers are taking action toward greater sustainability of their activities...

April 20, 2022
Environment
Companies

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The growing environmental impact of digital technologies

Digital technologies have undoubtedly been helping reduce the environmental impact of some sectors, such as transport through teleworking or buildings through “smart building” technologies. However, this is only one side of the coin. The other is the impacts generated by the digital world itself...

April 13, 2022
Greenhouse Gases
Climate Change