Sustainability in the data center industry has steadily grown in importance over the last few years. But unprecedented demand for AI has caused power demands to soar. This has given fresh impetus to the need for sustainability programs. Sustainability impacts the...

As we discussed in Part 1, defining true data center energy efficiency is challenging. Existing metrics examine the data center as a building, but the argument can be made that a data center is much more than that. A data center is a service that, in a general sense,...