RF Code’s Vice President of Market and Strategic Partnerships Richard Jenkins recently wrote an article for Triple Pundit titled “The Sustainable Data Center of the Future”. From the article:
The environmental impact of data is difficult to see from the consumer perspective. We have expectations of being able to access information immediately, want our service providers to be able to do the same and it is essential for every corporation to make historical data available at the click of a button.
Data is the biggest environmental pressure being placed on the world today as the emissions from massive data centers break new global restrictions and the power consumed to run these essential services spirals upwards at a time when power production is in a radical state of change. Sustainable data centers can lesson that impact.
The number of data centers being built around the world is expected to double by 2016. While this may seem to be a staggering amount of growth, it will still not be adequate to match the rate of growth in the generation of the data it is managing.
Alongside the data center increase is the inevitable power supply demand. While data centers and servers are becoming more energy efficient, there will always be massive power consumption, accompanied by unavoidable heat and CO2 emission impacts on the environment.
