There is a climate crisis at hand and although the Green Revolution has been slowly gathering pace, too much attention has been aimed at offsetting the impact of our actions rather than tackling the root cause.
The transition to sustainable energy solutions are already available today.
The latest climate conference COP26 represented a certain milestone in the 'race to zero', as a global call to convert commitment into results. However, with neither the fourth global carbon budget for 2023-27, nor the fifth for 2028-32 on track, there is a real need for progress to accelerate significantly.
An inherent issue with particular economic systems, requiring constant GDP growth, (a measurement of success never considered suitable, even by its creator Simon Kutnets), fused with reliance on 'free-market' forces and the profit incentive, is that they often exhibit low-cost methods of production, typically being less stringently regulated when it comes to environmental impact. Furthermore, to date, governments are still subsidising fossil fuel corporations, making our economies beholden to them. It has been a question of shifting the plutocratic political landscape and democratising grass roots movements, in order to bypass these systematic obstacles.
Urgent transition of these industries needs to be made to encompass renewable and sustainable power generation solutions. Generating a green and circular economy now, will lessen the cost later on.
Technology development will of course be at the heart of the overall solution. We recognise the role we need to play in reducing our sector’s emissions, which currently contribute, from a manufacturing and supply perspective, approximately 3% of all global carbon emissions.
There are several options to choose from when considering how to become carbon neutral. Energy usage accounts for a large proportion of carbon emissions, depending on the source of electricity of course. Despite 'green energy' tariffs, which advertise themselves as providing energy from renewable sources, this doesn’t actually guarantee the overall grid supply will be from clean energy.
Located in the various Nordic countries however and thanks to their unique geology, lie host to the highest number of hydroelectric dams in the world and Europe's largest renewable substation. Along with geothermal renewable energy sources also, stable power grids and year-round cool temperatures, these certain locations make for excellent future ready data centre hosting.
Due to cool local temperatures and various available infrastructure cooling options, whether air or liquid-cooled, this further reduces energy use requirements. Replacing the majority of the conventional mechanical cooling in a data centre, where over-cooling can take place, can also result in significant operational and capital cost savings.
With all year round direct energy supply, it allows us to provide consistent and ultra low-cost power provisioning, dramatically lowering carbon emissions and TCO.
This provides complete flexibility of kilowatt to hundred-megawatt power supply options, for covering large-scale, power intensive workloads such as HPC, Machine and Deep Learning, AI and scalable data silos. There are also a choice of redundancy options available to suit failover requirements.
All hosting facilities are committed to long-term sustainable growth and mitigating environmental impact of its operations.
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