Regardless of the data center size, data center efficiency should always be considered in the initial data center design and should be the number one consideration when looking at the data center environmental impact. Businesses must actively encourage energy efficiency in data centers and investigate ...
With pressure from organizations like the International Energy Agency and the United Nations calling for a concerted effort to reduce emissions and address worsening climate change, many have argued that data centers can make a difference by taking action to reduce their environmental impact. Data cent...
IDC defines Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE) as a metric used to measure the carbon emissions associated with operating a data center that is particularly useful for assessing the environmental impact of data centers, as it directly relates energy consumption to carbon emi...
Data storage, both on-premises and in the cloud, is an area of IT that can harm the environment since storage hardware can consume a large amount of energy. But there are ways to be mindful of the environmental impact of data storage when choosing strategies, hardware and vendors. Storage ...
Numerous evaluation metrics and standards are being proposed across industry and government to measure and monitor the energy efficiency of data centers. However, the energy use of data centers is just one aspect of the environmental impact. In this paper, we explore the overall environmental foot...
And yet, the environmental impact of cloud itself can be significant: cloud-based software runs on computers and mobile devices but actually lives on hardware in remote data centers. Although the software itself does not consume energy, the hardware on which it relies—including processors, memory...
"This fear of runaway data center growth is not a new fear," says Lucas Beran, principal analyst at Dell'Oro Group, who notes that the US Department of Energy released a study in the early 2000s warning about the potential environmental impact of data centers if they did not become more...
Environmental pollution and energy poverty have always been serious challenges for the global energy system. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2020, this paper uses FE and sys-GMM models to explore the impact of environmental
However, the performance of the data center is a fine line to balance: Overall performance must not have a negative impact on business needs but it should also maximize energy efficiency for both the organization’s costs and the environmental cost. In addition to reduced costs and increased ...
We extend a multimodal transport model to simulate an increase of the market share of electric vehicles. The model, which is described in detail in Kilani