Google Cloud’s new Carbon Footprint feature provides customers with one-click access to emissions data for carbon tracking four cloud applications, simplifying disclosure for corporate ESG (Environmental Social, Governance) reporting.
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Uptime: Most Data Centers Still Not Tracking Environmental Impact
Despite a growing focus on environmental sustainability, most data center operators are still not measuring their water or carbon impact, according to new survey data from Uptime Institute.
Iron Mountain Adds Hourly Renewable Energy Tracking for its Data Centers
Iron Mountain will begin tracking the hourly renewable content of the energy used in several of its data centers, reflecting the growing enterprise interest in the sustainability of their IT supply chain.
Fast-Tracking the Digital Future
Tim Shaheen, Executive Vice President of Strategy & Development at Aligned, explores what’s required to bring us into the next chapter of our digital future.
Top 10 Data Center Stories for November 2021
Merger mania swept the data center industry in November, and dominated industry news headlines. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in November 2021.
Omicron: A New Resiliency Test for the World and the Cloud
What might the Omicron variant mean to the data center sector and cloud computing? That’s our topic today on the DCF Show podcast, where we look at three areas of potential business impact: travel restrictions, supply chain disruptions, and the progress of the enterprise IT recovery.
Digital Infrastructure Decision Points: Speed to Deploy, Time to Market
Pre-configured physical infrastructures are flexible solutions for data center leaders need to find ways to be creative, improve customers’ deployment speed and reduce overall time to market. A DCF special report courtesy of Panduit looks at how pre-configured cloud solutions facilitate the speed of deployment without sacrificing the ability to tweak according to customer needs.
American Tower: Interconnection is Key to the Converged Digital Future
In buying CoreSite for $10.1 billion, American Tower says the business value of the edge is tied to the cloud, and will require connections that run through data centers at the core of the network.
Overclocking the Cloud? Immersion Cooling Could Enable Faster Servers
Microsoft has been test-driving the use of overclocked processors running in immersion cooling tanks, and says the combination can boost server performance by 20 percent. The company says immersion cooling “unlocks new potential for data center design.”
Microsoft Aims to Slash Data Center Water Usage by 95 Percent in 3 Years
Microsoft says it will reduce the use of water in its data centers by 95 percent by 2024 by refining how it designs and operates its massive cloud infrastructure. including operating its data centers at warmer temperatures.
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