The ongoing digital transformation across all industries is an efficient leap towards embracing automation and reducing production costs. Digitizing operations can gain maximum business growth in less time. Data centers are a crucial part and the digital infrastructure is dependent on them. But they have been blamed for consuming a large amount of energy and giving out carbon emissions. In the Seagate hosted video that announces IDC's whitepaper 'Data Age 2025', Dave Reinsel, Senior Vice President, IDC says that the global datasphere will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025. He says, "If one was able to store the 175 zettabytes onto blu-ray discs, then you would have a stack of discs that could get you to the moon 23 times."
It is imperative for businesses to adopt sustainable practices considering climate change, rising sea levels, and increasing carbon emissions in the environment. The power usage by data centers is significantly high and they emit a humongous amount of heat. An International Energy Agency report states that data centers account for about 1% of global electricity demand. Since data centers house a humongous amount of computing systems and storage devices, they use a lot of water to cool off the heat. Thus, it is crucial to develop sustainable data centers to preserve renewable energy along with digitizing business operations.
Google in one of its blogs speaks about its carbon-intelligent computing platform which is an efficient step towards attaining sustainability.