Turning the Tide: Data Centers' Energy Transition to Sustainability Powerhouses

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / March 22, 2024 / Eaton:

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Karina Rigby, president, Critical Systems, Electrical Sector, EMEA, Eaton

Data centers have an eco-unfriendly reputation, but they will actually be powerhouses for change in the race to a more sustainable future. Read on to see how they're helping to enable a new power paradigm built on clean energy-and how we're supporting them at Eaton.

Written by Dr Karina Rigby, 03/04/2024

Amid the push to net zero, data centers are coming under increasing scrutiny. With a reputation as energy devouring carbon culprits, these facilities are firmly in the sights of environmental groups and governments-but they actually have a vital role to play in the green revolution.

The World Economic Forum suggests that around 60% of global gross domestic product is now somehow digital, putting data centers firmly at the heart of economic growth for the foreseeable future. As unstoppable digitalization accelerates worldwide, there are now as many data centers planned as already exist-and that's before powerful trends like artificial intelligence have fully impacted the market. Indeed, entire regions like the Middle East are beginning to refocus from an oil-based to a digital-based economy, which can only be a good thing.

However, while data centers are vital to economic prosperity, they are also often regarded as digitalization's dirty secret. Headlines claiming data centers out-pollute airlines are easy to find, causing many leaders to worry about the dramatic rise in their numbers. But is this eco-unfriendly reputation fair?

Accounting for about 1.5% of global energy consumption, data centers have long been striving to raise efficiency and reduce emissions. It's a testament to the success of these efforts that, as the IEA reports, data center emissions "have grown only modestly despite rapidly growing demand for digital services".

From our customer conversations, sustainability is now one of the core imperatives for data center operators alongside speed and cost. We have a broad range of products and services that are supporting this push, for example optimizing energy efficiency or enabling local renewable generation.

Emerging technology trends will only accelerate this process-for instance, switching to hydrogen rather than diesel for back up power, or enabling more efficient cooling. Over the coming years, these innovations will further drive down data center costs, energy consumption and carbon emissions.

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