CIO

JUNE 19, 2024

Data centers are hot, in more ways than one. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Danish engineering company Danfoss have announced a partnership to help mitigate the issues: an off-the-shelf heat recovery module branded HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery. Any capture is good.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Imagine a world in which data centers were deployed in space. Using a satellite networking system, data would be collected from Earth, then sent to space for processing and storage. The system would use photonics and optical technology, dramatically cutting down on power consumption and boosting data transmission speeds.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has upped the ante across all tech arenas, including one of the most traditional ones: data centers. Modern data centers are running hotter than ever – not just to manage ever-increasing processing demands, but also rising temperatures as the result of AI workloads, which sees no end in sight.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. New technologies, such as generative AI, need huge amounts of processing power that will put electricity grids under tremendous stress and raise sustainability questions.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Today’s enterprises face a mandate to make their operations more sustainable, from customers and regulators alike. In the Equinix 2023 Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS), 68% of global IT leaders said that the environmental impact of their IT equipment and infrastructure is something they measure and actively try to limit.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Customer sentiment, evolving corporate values, and government regulation have converged to make sustainability a strategic priority for nearly every business. 1] Preparing for long-term sustainability has become a fundamental part of future-proofing your organization.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Businesses have long understood that simplifying and centralizing operations can reduce costs, break down silos, and foster collaboration and sustainability. The rise of AI, particularly generative AI and AI/ML, adds further complexity with challenges around data privacy, sovereignty, and governance.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainability is on the rise as a CIO imperative, with most CIOs now central to their organization’s increasing focus on sustainability planning — a trend that’s shaking up what technologies IT leaders are investing in and the vendors and partners they are signing deals with. Customer demand is also fueling the trend, Bailkoski says.

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. As sustainable efforts become a greater priority, here are four ways companies are succeeding in streamlining their AI efforts. The Icelandic data center uses 100% renewably generated geothermal and hydroelectric power.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. With Amazon taking care of infrastructure, patching, and security, Choice’s 650-member Scottsdale, Ariz.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

But while the payback promised by many genAI projects is nebulous, the costs of the infrastructure to run them is finite, and too often, unacceptably high. Infrastructure-intensive or not, generative AI is on the march. IDC research finds roughly half of worldwide genAI expenditures in 2024 will go toward digital infrastructure.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Simply put, there is a direct link between economic progress and IT infrastructure, with robust trade dependent on a strong digital foundation. It launched a Regional Information Infrastructure Project, enabling access to the international internet backbone through undersea cables.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

Companies across industries are committing to maximizing sustainability within their operations — and IT is at the heart of most of these efforts. In its Worldwide Sustainability/ESG 2023 Predictions , analyst firm IDC sees digital and sustainability transformations converging. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 25, 2024

But the brilliant gleam of that potential is preventing us from clearly seeing a huge concern — we may not have enough electricity to power the growing number of AI-focused data centers. But renewable energy isn’t a great fit for data centers, which need a consistent power source to stay running.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2023

At the same time, the importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies has become a boardroom topic, with sustainability concerns leading the way in many geographies. This presents a critical sustainability challenge. To find out about Intel’s commitment to a sustainable future, visit intel.com/sustainability.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand , IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Data sovereignty and local cloud infrastructure will remain priorities, supported by national cloud strategies, particularly in the GCC. Energy Sector: Predictive maintenance, real-time analytics, and AI-driven exploration will improve efficiency and sustainability in oil, gas, and renewables.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2023

It’s no wonder that–per a recent study commissioned by Dell Technologies, Intel and NVIDIA–HPC operators have elevated the importance of sustainability to the number two priority, even surpassing price. We applaud and support the efforts of HPC operators to improve sustainability.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Environmental sustainability has emerged as a significant concern and a business imperative for organizations today. Sustainability Leaders Video Series In this APAC Network video series hosted by Equinix, meet Asia-Pacific’s most inspiring people and companies leading the green revolution and charting a sustainable future for our planet.

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CIO

AUGUST 25, 2022

For good business reasons, more than up to 50% of applications and data remain on-premises in data centers, colocations, and edge locations, according to 451 Research. This is due to issues like data gravity, latency, application dependency, and regulatory compliance.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

However, the rapid pace of growth also highlights the urgent need for more sustainable and efficient resource management practices. FinOps primarily involves finance and IT teams, often neglecting input from other stakeholders like operations and sustainability teams. Here are the key reasons: Lack of cross-functional alignment.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

With rich resources like a growing physical infrastructure and subsea cable network, Africa is uniquely positioned to emerge as a leader among todays developing economies. European Union (EU), China, and India all have strategic programs in place for a solid digital infrastructure on the African continent. For instance, the U.S.,

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At Equinix, we recognize that meeting key sustainability targets is one of our customers’ top concerns—now and into the future. We’re also emphasizing transparency in our sustainability metrics, so that current and future Equinix customers can easily see how our efforts might benefit their sustainability bottom line.

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CIO

JULY 9, 2023

Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US Signal is the largest privately-held data center services provider in the Midwest. We recently connected with Katie McCormick, director of marketing at US Signal, to learn more about the company’s aggressive efforts to encourage sustainable business operations.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Things that caught our eye and other stuff: Weve talked a lot about data centers in this space , and once again this week a related startup raised big. The company, launched just in May, develops sustainable AI-ready data centers, deploys GPU infrastructure and delivers AI cloud services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. Data centers are power-hungry, and often already have power infrastructure in place in order to be able to accept backup generators.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Innovation underpins corporate sustainability efforts. From an investment standpoint, sustainable solutions can also perform double duty, often yielding significant added value such as productivity and efficiency gains and new revenue streams. of global emissions. of global emissions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Device42 , a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. Our focus as a platform is to discover IT infrastructure, the breadth and depth of discovery going from mainframe to cloud and everything in between.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A fleet of green data centers and a well-advanced plan to stop using fossil-fuel powered vehicles are among the key steps driving Intermax’s mission to be the most sustainable cloud services provider in the Netherlands. Notably, all five of the company’s data centers are already 100% powered by Dutch solar and wind sources.

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Sustainability Cloud Data Center Transportation 158

CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“Our sustainability goals and key performance indicators are important to us. We recently connected with Arthur Schneider, Head of Sustainability Management at Bechtle to learn more about the company’s sustainability initiatives, what it means to be part of the VMware Zero Committed Initiative and what he sees in his work with customers.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In Australia, Orro is synonymous with ironclad software-defined infrastructure and sovereign cloud services that enable new ways of working, from fully managed cloud-native applications that accelerate the pace of business, to advanced collaboration tools that deliver on the promise of remote work.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

IT professionals can play a pivotal role by strategically leveraging as-a-service models as a key part of their organizations, enabling them to contribute not only to cost efficiencies but also to their organizations’ sustainability goals. All of these present challenges for IT professionals within their day-to-day activities in data centers.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2022

Becoming a sustainable enterprise is no longer a “nice to have” priority – reducing a company’s carbon footprint and fighting climate change is now mainstream. A sustainable model is built on an entrepreneurial approach to collaboration and building together, while making sure that the impact on the ecosystem is reduced steadily. “A

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

We recently held our annual corporate conference addressing many subjects top of mind with IT leaders and it came as no surprise that a session on sustainability was one of the most attended. Let’s dive into the three pillars of ESG in the context of sustainable IT. With the number of connected devices expected to reach 55.7

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Sustainability Leadership Energy Data Center 147

CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an idea we’re proud to support, as it aligns with our own Data Center of the Future initiative. We believe investing in sustainable data center technologies isn’t just the right thing to do for the future of our planet; it can also be a key source of business value for our customers today.

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