||It’s safe to say that with the massive spike in internet utilization and dependency on streaming in 2020, data centers are using a lot more power. So of course, that means the ratio of the power purchasing and demand for renewable generation will increase as well. We know that data center facilities each require massive amounts of electrical power and pump out tons of carbon pollution each year, but with the rise of hyperscale and greater migration to the cloud, more and more traffic is passing through data centers so the level of operations are only projected to increase. In fact, in just four years, colocation and wholesale data center capacity is expected to grow by 35.2%, exceeding 32 gigawatts of power available to customer IT systems, which is similar to the total electricity needs of a country like Spain. To get to grips with what can, and should, be done in the way of reducing our footprint in the across the industry and supporting customers in also doing so, we get insights from Jim Henry, Global Compliance at Iron Mountain, who sheds light on the state of sustainability across the colocation sector, and what going green looks like for […]
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