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Managing consumption and carbon footprint are driving trends towards regulation , standardisation and the search for generator alternatives . Vertiv explores some of the developments we can expect across the data centre space in 2023 .
Vertiv sees energy use and efficiency loom large as data centre industry turns to 2023
Data centres will experience increased regulation and third-party oversight in 2023 as the world continues to grapple with the industry ’ s rising energy and water consumption against the backdrop of ongoing climate change . The intensified focus on the overall environmental and community impact of the data centre is one of five industry trends for 2023 identified by the global data centre experts at Vertiv , a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions .
“ The data centre industry is growing rapidly as more and more applications require compute and storage , driving a corresponding rapid increase in energy and water use in data centre facilities ,” said Giordano Albertazzi , Vertiv Chief Operating
Officer and President , Americas . “ The industry has understood that pursuing energy and water efficiency aggressively is key for future success and survival . Increased regulation is inevitable and will lead to important innovations across our industry . The process may not always be easy or linear , but it can be navigated with the help of expert data centre partners and innovative solutions that can anticipate the changes while meeting the always increasing requirements of the data centre applications .”
The advances in chip design and manufacturing that limited server power consumption through the first decade and a half of the 2000s reached their limits in recent years and a spike in the amount of energy servers use has followed . In a recent report , Silicon heatwave : the looming change in data center climates , www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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