DigiPlex, the Nordic leader for innovative, secure and sustainable data centers, has published “Will your IT withstand a sustainability review?”, a guide to help businesses assess and manage the sustainability profile of the data centers their data resides in.
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To date, the environmental damage caused by IT has been largely overlooked, but this is changing. The DigiPlex guide highlights:
- It has been estimated that data centers and digital infrastructure could be responsible for up to 20% of the world’s electricity consumption and 5.5% of CO2 emissions within a decade
- One in four Scandinavian consumers would consider using the internet less to reduce environmental damage
- Nearly three-quarters of Scandinavians believe digital service providers should report on their energy consumption and its impact on climate
- The EU Commission note in their digital strategy that data centers are responsible for a significant environmental footprint, and “can and should become climate neutral by 2030.”
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Data, and the digital infrastructure that supports data collection, use and storage, is essential to almost every business. But few organisations have the frameworks and processes to accurately report on the environmental impact of the data centers their data resides in. As they use a wider range of cloud, co-located and on-premise IT facilities, many struggle to even identify where data and computing resources are located.
The DigiPlex guide: Will your IT withstand a sustainability review? provides a compendium of research, insights and practical advice designed to help businesses assess the sustainability of their IT provision and make decisions to improve it based on industry best practice. It includes summaries of research by leading experts including Gartner, The Uptime Institute and Harvard Business Review, as well as primary research undertaken by DigiPlex with Kantar. The guide outlines five reasons why organisations should expect an audit of their IT’s environmental impact. It then provides three data center areas where action can and should be taken to prepare for an audit and, more importantly, establish the metrics that can help to reduce CO2 emissions. An easy to use checklist completes the guide. Will your IT withstand a sustainability review?
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