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evolving, and these accusations are countered with self-driven or regulation-induced developments that have already guided performance towards a zerocarbon scenario. The fast growth of data centers as a response to digital transformation and an initially limited number of regulations in the sector caused server utilization rates far under capacity.
The data center sector is increasingly gaining energy efficiency, and this trend is likely to continue. Strategic deployment of colocation data centers and the building of an optimal network of nodes can solve data transfer and latency issues. Making the IT infrastructure accessible and reliable improves efficiency in other sectors of the economy that use data centers. They can work on low carbon energy sources while providing broader access to predictive analytics and repair automation to streamline maintenance and services with reduced emissions. Skeptics of data centers list key challenges like emissions from energy sources and inefficient cooling along the acoustic and hardware waste or negative impact on biodiversity. 1 Data centers are rapidly
Many groundbreaking technologies were not accepted by society at an early stage of their implementation. Data centers may share a similar history. Many people initially feared electricity, accusing it of being dangerous. Technology evolution and innovations, like developing a method to generate alternating current or moving high voltage wires in cities from overhead to underground, have increased safety and resiliency of electricity. Data centers are at pivotal point, proving their significance in advancing human civilization.
Even though many factors are involved in estimations, scenarios can change dramatically before 2050 and leveraging computational power to help solve some of the world’ s most urgent environmental challenges will remain important. It requires the presence of data centers in much greater number than today’ s count. This perspective is part of a series addressing data center-driven decarbonization of top polluters in today’ s business. p
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