Datacenter sustainability: Carbon emissions likely to outpace ‘many sustainability efforts’ 

Cheryl Billson
PR and Communications
Datacenter sustainability research from EkkoSense and IDC


 
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A new report – “Monitoring and Optimizing AI Datacenter Facilities” – written by Sean Graham, the analyst firm IDC’s Research Director for Cloud to Edge Datacenter Trends, suggests that growth in datacenter carbon emissions through to 2028 is likely to outpace corporate sustainability efforts.  
  
Sean Graham projects that ‘datacenter energy consumption is expected to grow 2.4 times between 2023 and 2028’. He also details how continued investment in digital transformation and the proliferation of generative AI applications will see energy consumption rise from 352 Terawatt Hours (TWh) to 857 TWh by 2028.  
  
The IDC InfoBrief report, supported by EkkoSense, shares how ‘despite energy efficiency improvements and investments in renewable technology, datacenter carbon emissions are still expected to record a CAGR of 11.7% by 2028.’ When examining the biggest challenges that organizations face in enacting datacenter sustainability measures, IDC’s report cited the two largest issues for enterprise datacenters will be ‘difficult to quantify and prove environmental impact’ and a ‘lack of tools to collect, measure and report.  
  
EkkoSense can help datacenter operations teams address both these challenges – enabling cooling energy usage savings that translate directly into quantifiable carbon savings, while also providing embedded tools to automate the production of ESG metrics and reporting. Our award-winning AI-powered EkkoSoft Critical 3D visualization and analytics SaaS solution helps operations teams to optimize performance and support datacenter sustainability. We regularly secure datacenter cooling energy usage reductions of up to 30% as illustrated by these case studies here. At the same time, quantifiable datacenter carbon emissions savings mean that EkkoSense makes a great partner for datacenters looking to deliver on their corporate ESG goals.  
  
IDC also sets out a series of recommendations to support datacenter operations teams looking to balance increased workloads with corporate sustainability commitments. You can read more here.   
  
EkkoSoft Critical helps datacenter operations teams resolve this in a light-touch, vendor-agnostic way. Key benefits include identifying cooling, power and capacity inefficiencies, unlocking cooling energy and carbon savings, and freeing capacity for operators to support additional workloads within your existing space. See an instant video demo of EkkoSoft Critical now to find out how EkkoSense can make the invisible visible, enabling you to understand exactly what’s going on as you work to deliver improved datacenter sustainability.