CREDIT: LENOVO sustainability trade-offs,” James says. These include factors such as“ balancing higher compute density against the energy and cooling overheads it creates, or prioritising lower emissions and resource efficiency over shortterm performance gains, rather than addressing each in isolation,” he adds. James notes this requires closer coordination between facilities teams, IT operations and energy providers, so that decisions about capacity, cooling and workload placement are made with a shared understanding of their long-term sustainability impact.
“DATA CENTRE OPERATORS SHOULD ADOPT A‘ ONE WORKLOAD AT A TIME’ APPROACH TO DRIVE EFFICIENCY”
James Pennington,
Global Sustainability Services Director, Lenovo datacentremagazine. com
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