New data center analyst IDC research highlights key industry challenge: Balancing growth and environmental sustainability
- Data center energy consumption is set to double over the next five years – rising from 352 terawatt hours (TWh) to 857 TWh
A new report from data center analyst IDC “Monitoring and Optimizing Datacenter Trends” – suggests that the ‘pre-eminent challenge of the data center industry is the struggle between growth and environmental sustainability’.
Authored by Sean Graham – IDC’s Research Director, the report finds that data center energy consumption is set to double over the next five years – rising from 352 terawatt hours (TWh) to 857 TWh. It also recognizes that ‘despite efforts to improve energy efficiency and invest in renewable technologies’, many sustainability initiatives are not keeping pace with growing data center workload demands.
To help data center operations teams address this issue, the new IDC analyst report sets out four key recommendations that you can read by downloading the report here. Top of the list is the need to ‘Understand Your Current Environment’, with a clear goal being to focus on visibility into your existing data center energy consumption, energy costs, and carbon emissions.
That’s where EkkoSense can make a difference. We believe that balancing the kind of transition that’s required to support GPU-intensive AI workloads with corporate ESG pressure to cut energy and carbon usage can only be resolved with absolute real-time white space visibility.
With our award-winning AI-powered EkkoSoft Critical 3D visualization and analytics SaaS solution, we can help data center operations teams resolve this in a light-touch, vendor-agnostic way. Key EkkoSense benefits here include identifying cooling, power and capacity inefficiencies, unlocking cooling energy and carbon savings, and freeing capacity to support additional workloads.
Working with EkkoSense can help you to establish a baseline and understand your current data center environment better. Go here to download your copy of the data center analyst research from IDC ‘Monitoring and Optimizing AI Datacenter Facilities’. You can find out more, and see a demo of EkkoSoft Critical here
