Data center sustainability and planning

Lead the way in the ever-changing, ever-growing data center market

Data centers must scale to meet the demand of digital lifestyles and more intelligent buildings and industry. This demand is driving a hybrid data center architecture of centralized, regional, and local edge. To survive and grow, you will need to leverage the power of connected infrastructure for a more sustainable, efficient, adaptive, and resilient data center.

50%

increase in electrical footprint of all data centers by 2025¹

500%

growth in global data generated by 2025²

24%

of executives report that over 50% of their data centers will be self-configuring by 2025³

75%

of data will be processed at the edge by 2025⁴

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Trailblazing the path to net-zero data center operations

In this Innovation Talk session, Iron Mountain discusses how they are intertwining strategic sustainability priorities with business goals. Learn how they have utilized digitization to measure and report on clear sustainability metrics.

Hybrid cloud architecture evolution

Hear from Steve Carlini, VP of Innovation and Data Center at Schneider Electric, as he shares the evolution of the hybrid cloud architecture and discusses how IT and data center professionals can leverage this change.

Powering and digitizing data centers

Pankaj Sharma, EVP of Secure Power Division at Schneider Electric, discusses how the digitization of data centers plays a pivotal role for businesses to adapt and be resilient to uncertainties.

Building the resilient and sustainable Edge

The industry faces an emerging challenge within smaller, edge environments. Kevin Brown, SVP and CMO of Secure Power Division at Schneider Electric, explains how we power the digital transformation for our customers in a highly reliable and resilient way.

Reimagine colocation with sustainability front of mind

A 2022 study by Forrester Consulting surveyed 1,033 colocation providers across the globe. Read to see where colocation firms stand on the journey to net zero, and how sustainability investments are bringing business results.

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Data centers and sustainability

The majority of data center providers surveyed see efficiency and sustainability as strategic differentiators to their business. Discover the key sustainability factors driving action for multi-tenant data centers.

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Operational resilience through services

We analyzed survey results from 1,400+ business decision makers to better understand their current and future business challenges, and how they plan to engage third-party service providers to help with their business continuity.

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Expert-written white papers

Access trusted research papers that cover the best practices and the latest trends in the data center industry.

Data center modernization

How can legacy data centers become digital, efficient, and sustainable? Data center modernization should go beyond hardware upgrades to enable scalability, accommodate growth, and harness digitization to gain visibility and insights.

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Sustainability and resiliency aren’t mutually exclusive

Schneider Electric believes electricity and digitization enable decarbonization, waste elimination, and efficiency. See how data centers of the future can demonstrate increased sustainability while maintaining uptime utilizing Electricity 4.0.

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Introducing comprehensive sustainability metrics

While power usage effectiveness (PUE) has spurred a race toward increased efficiency, the data center industry must commit to a shared sustainability measurement standard to capture energy, emissions, water, waste, and biodiversity. Learn the 23 key sustainability metrics.

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Avoiding common mistakes in data center design

From site selection to space planning and technical parameters, data center design involves many decisions that must be made in the proper order. Learn about three common mistakes in design planning, how to avoid them, and their costly repercussions.

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Data-driven reference designs

Simplify and accelerate your next data center design projects using research-backed reference designs.

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Science-based calculators

Explore our clear, interactive tools to help support data center planning decisions for cooling, power, and efficiency.

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How to make your data center sustainable?

Set a bold actionable strategy
Implement efficient data center designs
Drive efficiency in operations
Buy on- and off-site renewable energy
Decarbonize supply chains

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Digital movie magic

Animal Logic

Creating award-winning effects outside of Hollywood is a bold idea. Schneider Electric installed a ready-made data center in less than five months for Animal Logic and now they make digital movie magic with EcoStruxure IT.

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A sustainable data center

Green Mountain

Using cold fjord water to cool a data center deep within a mountain is a bold idea. With EcoStruxure IT, Green Mountain innovates data center cooling to support the critical uptime needs of its customers, operating one of the most sustainable data centers in the world.

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Where growth meets 24/7 reliability

Digital Realty

Through the monitoring and reporting of EcoStruxure, Digital Realty can provide the scalability that clients require in the face of modern market demands.

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Build a sustainable future

Meet business needs responsibly, without compromising the future.

Set a bold actionable strategy

Establish a holistic, data-driven sustainability strategy with measurable targets to minimize environmental impacts.

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Implement sustainable data center designs

Reduce energy consumption and improve sustainability with efficient data center cooling solutions.

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Drive sustainability in operations

Leverage data and digitalization to drive efficiency and optimize performance across your data center infrastructure.

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Purchase renewable energy

Leverage our unparalleled expertise and trusted global reputation to help you find the best renewable energy projects and cleantech products at the best price.

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Decarbonize supply chains

Employ an active energy management and sustainability strategy by breaking down silos to achieve your corporate carbon goals.

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Maximize data center efficiency

Optimize cost, speed, and capital to increase return on investment.

High-density IT spaces

Maximize IT space by utilizing high-density infrastructure solutions such as pod data centers.

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Highest efficiency designs

Benefit from efficiency optimized data center reference designs.

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Streamlined processes

Digitize processes at any point in the lifecycle from planning to operation covering all data center domains.

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Digital Services

Combine cloud-enabled remote monitoring service with real-time data to troubleshoot and dispatch help.

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Benefit from an adaptive data center

Designed to adopt new technologies.

Flexibility in design and deployment

Reduce deployment time by 50% with prefabricated modules, which provide simple and easy-to-deploy data center infrastructure for any application.

Compatible with future IT needs

Ensure that data center physical equipment, cooling, and power are compatible with advances in IT servers, the scale of new workloads, and storage demands.

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Workload and application portability

Identify and relocate workloads based on power and cooling profiles and cost of power or energy sources in different geographies.

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Active energy management

Interact with energy and sustainability experts and learn how to turn energy into a controllable spend, increase efficiency, and meet sustainability goals.

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Ensure resiliency of your data center infrastructure

Reduce vulnerability to unplanned downtime.

Reliable power and cooling

Improve reliability with integrated medium voltage, low voltage, and uninterruptible power supply and cooling solutions that can be configured to provide redundancy.

Remote management

Minimize downtime and improve resiliency with next-generation Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions.

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Comprehensive predictive analysis

Leverage big data to gain insights into the current and future state of your distributed IT environment.

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Sources

¹ Nature, How to stop data centres from gobbling up the world’s electricity
² Uptime Institute, 2019 Annual Data Center Survey Results
³ Global Market Insights, Inc, Software-defined Data Center Market Revenue to Hit USD 235 Bn by 2026
⁴ DataCenter Knowledge, Uptime's Data Center Survey Shows Increased Downtime and More Efficient Power Use

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