I’ve been extoling the virtues of decarbonizing the data center for months; so much so, that it’s time to go a little deeper.
Through my blogs, presentations and speaking events, we’ve sparked compelling conversations with people across industries and disciplines, from enterprise customers to industry watchers, from government officials to organizations simply desperate to start working on sustainability.
The question I get asked the most is often the most complicated, which is: where to start?
It’s tricky because every organization is at a different point in their sustainability ‘transformation.’ And some haven’t begun. They have different goals, resources, and expertise. Facilities management, for example, that looks at everything from cooling and lighting to electric generation and insulation, may be the first place for some. Paring down the data center by moving to cloud or hybrid cloud models may be a first choice for others.
But I want to shed light on the area of infrastructure – the digital equipment, compute, and storage – the raison Detra of the data center. There’s much to be gained by being smarter about this area of the operation.