IT Sustainability Think Tank: Sustainable Innovation At The Level Of The Datacentre
ComputerWeekly, Friday, July 26th, 2024
The hype around AI is increasingly being matched with discussions about how the technology's adoption will affect the environment, so what can IT leaders do to ensure they keep the companies they work for on the forefront of innovation, without compromising the environment - or their firm's own corporate sustainability agenda?
Datacentre industry stakeholders and regulators are expected to expand their energy efficient datacentre criteria to include assessments of IT equipment utilisation and work delivered per unit of energy consumed.
While the industry has traditionally used Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) as the proxy metric for datacentre efficiency and sustainability, it does not address the efficiency of the IT equipment.
And there is a realisation among operators and industry stakeholders that truly efficient datacentres must maximise the utilisation of the IT equipment work capacity and minimise the power demand to the greatest possible extent.