Listen to this webinar to hear a detailed overview of the current landscape, key challenges facing those operating data centres and how organisations are working to ensure the sustainable future for an always-connected world, led by Michael Reid, Engineering Director at Solar Polar. Data centres are the lynchpins of our modern world, providing the services and websites to stay connected during our daily online lives. The move to cloud-based computing, including offsite backups and remote data processing, together with the rise of online streaming services has also increased this demand. However, the unseen climate cost associated with maintaining these is enormous, with computer hardware and associated cooling infrastructure using up to 2% of electricity worldwide* – that’s more electricity than that consumed by dozens of the poorest countries in the world combined. With this figure only set to rise, along with the associated heat and greenhouse gases produced, Big Data has become an ever growing energy black hole. This is a recording of a webinar that took place on 2 March 2020.
