Data Center Sustainability

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As demand for senior-level data center professionals and IT/facility engineers with advanced sustainability expertise continues to rise, sustainability skill sets have never been more valuable or impactful. 

Being edge-ready will need to be about sustainability as much as being operationally resilient. 

Servers used in immersion cooling are the same used in air cooling with a few modifications, like removing the fans. 

Battery-based energy storage is a quickly deployed, cost-effective, and low-emission solution that not only increases the resilience of commercial and industrial facilities but also supports systemwide decarbonization and energy security goals across Europe and worldwide.

The launch of this comprehensive executive advisory series is the latest step in Uptime’s longstanding and expanding program to inform, guide, and support sustainability efforts within the sector — and it comes at a critical time for digital infrastructure operators. 

The 900,000-square-foot data center aims to serve as a model of energy efficiency and will be supported by renewable energy from new solar energy plants. The project will also aim for LEED Gold certification and receive credits for water restoration efforts. 

By virtue of OriginMark’s material traceability and unique assembly relationship data structure, valuable embodied carbon data can be computed based on an aggregate total and origination of materials inside the individual components, whether that’s a single uninterruptible power supply (UPS), a data center, or a customer’s multi-location presence across Aligned campuses.