Building A More Sustainable Data Center: Challenges And Opportunities In The AI Era
DataCenter Knowledge, Tuesday, September 17th, 2024
Data centers are under pressure to meet the demands of AI while improving sustainability. Discover the challenges and opportunities shaping this transformation.
Data centers use massive amounts of power and water to run and cool racks of servers, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. According to the International Energy Agency, data centers account for 1-1.5% of the world's power consumption, and this is only expected to increase over the coming years.
The escalating demands for artificial intelligence (AI) are driving global data centers towards smaller, denser servers with hotter components. This surge in power requirements has resulted in the need for imminent design adaptations in data center infrastructure.