FEATURE serious issue that power-hungry data centre businesses must act on for the long term . But rather than expectations of huge strides , it is more a pattern that industry players are taking smaller , surer steps towards environmental goals such as achieving 100 % renewable energy use . The pace of initiatives is gaining momentum and , while businesses are committed to common industry goals – demonstrated for example by the Climate Neutral Data Pact – the drive to be as green as possible is also fuelling competition as individual companies vie for business .
Data centre businesses will embrace Artificial Intelligence further into next year , crucially to manage and source clean energy . AI will not suddenly revolutionise the industry but as it becomes more mainstream , it will facilitate progress as data centres learn to apply AI technologies for more efficient and sustainable operations .
The industry as a whole needs to be doing more to tap into less explored clean energy sources like hydrogen , along with sustained efforts to identify and support environmentally friendly models such as IaaS and SaaS . It is extremely positive that customers are challenging data centre businesses on their green credentials , along with more government regulations coming into play . These are all helping to drive the changes that will continue to shape data centres into 2024 and beyond .
Carl Shallow , Director of Compliance , Integrity360
We ’ ve seen organisations digitally transforming and maturing at both speed and scale .
The pandemic brought about years of change in the way companies in all sectors and regions operate . According to a July 2020 McKinsey Global Survey , executives revealed that COVID-19 had accelerated the digitisation of their customer and supply-chain interactions and of their internal operations by three to four years .
That pace of change has led to the widespread adoption of cloud tools and technologies . From a security www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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