Beyond Energy Efficiency - Life Cycle Based Data Centre Sustainability

Digital Climate Emergency Series - EP.2
As the role of data centre keeps increasing, so will concerns over its huge energy use, increased energy cost, associated impacts on climate change and more corporate social responsibility pressures. In recent years, the data center industry has made excellent progress in enhancing energy efficiency and adopting renewable energy sources. However, a sole focus on energy efficiency may cause burden shifting and overlook other relevant environmental problems stemming from other parts of the data centres’ life cycle.

In this webinar, we are discussing a life cycle based approach to assess data centre sustainability and how that will benefit us to designing truly sustainably efficient data centres. We also comparing how businesses understand life cycle approach in the development of efficient data centers and where are the rallying points for environment and business to come together for a sustainable future.

Speakers:
· Xiao Wang, Programme Officer, Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency

· Henrik Hansen, Director, Danish Data Center Industry (03:32)

· Alexis Laurent, Associate Professor, Techical University of Denmark (04:52, 1:20:49)

· Soeren Juul Schroeder, Country Manager, Schneider Electric (37:19, 1:06:54)

· Q&A (1:06:51)