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Outsourcing to colocation services also makes sense – it frees up significant budget and space while improving energy efficiency and reducing overall complexity .
ensuring protection against risks like fire , unauthorised access or theft and the everpresent threat of cyberattacks .
While these benefits may represent the proverbial ‘ carrot ’ to move to colocation , there are also drivers that represent the ‘ stick ’. For example , as the urgency around climate change grows , the environmental regulations and demands for carbon reporting placed on organisations globally will only increase . operations of new data centres , as decarbonisation and the drive towards net zero advances across the continent .
The good news is that the adoption of new digital technologies enabled by 5G , fibre and cloud computing could help the tech sector reduce its global carbon emissions by 40 % before 2030 .
In fact , colocation has a great deal to offer when it comes to enhancing sustainability . For example , a combination of greater hardware efficiency , compute utilisation and more sustainable software engineering is driving improved Power Usage Effectiveness . We are also seeing colocation taking place in purpose-built facilities that are strategically located near reliable sources of power and designed with high-density cooling in mind .
Additionally , the sector is making a collective effort to reach 100 % renewable electricity for their cloud platforms across several geographies as they drive continued efficiencies in their data centres . Increasingly , providers are incorporating alternative and renewable sources of electricity such as solar , wind , hydro and geothermal heat . Some colocation
The European Union has launched the Assessment Framework for Data Centres as part of the European Taxonomy
Sarwar Khan , Global Head of Digital Sustainability , BT
highlighting the need for computing to become more energy efficient , with measures being put forth to enforce green data centres which rely on renewable energy and reuse waste energy sources such as heat .
Then there are soaring energy prices that continue to reach record levels amid the reality of reduced supply – this is adding pressure on organisations to reduce their energy consumption . Multinational and local players who are expanding their footprint in Africa are already looking at benchmarks for sustainable interventions from design through construction and
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