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Workload efficiency represents untapped lever for AI environments While physical infrastructure improvements attract attention, workload efficiency remains underutilised as a sustainability strategy. James argues it can be a hugely important component for data centre operators.
“ Workload efficiency is all too often overlooked as a sustainability strategy, but it can be a hugely important component, even in AI-heavy environments,” James says.
“ Data centre operators should adopt a‘ one workload at a time’ approach to drive efficiency, building momentum in this way towards wider systemic change.”
He says that as far as possible, every watt consumed should be tied to productive computing output.
Virtualisation has a role to play here, helping to minimise idle capacity and maximise usage by allowing multiple applications to run on the same server. Updating older systems can also help, with newer architectures delivering more performance at a lower energy cost.
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