SERVERFARM
98 climate change while still delivering the capacity that the world needs ? The answer , for Serverfarm , is in repurposing existing facilities instead of building new ones .
To analyse the carbon savings potential from the reuse of an existing facility , Serverfarm asked an independent consultant , HKS , to calculate the carbon cost of using an existing data centre compared with a new build of the same scale . Buildings and construction directly represent around 39 % of all annual global greenhouse gas emissions , according to HKS . HKS analysed Serverfarm ’ s completed Chicago facility , a six-story building of just under 150,000 square feet with a capacity for housing more than 4,000 server cabinets . Reusing this building eliminates the carbon emissions for a standard new construction building , resulting in a modeled 88 % embodied carbon emission reduction .
More and more , enterprises and service providers look to data centre professionals to make their IT operations more sustainable – and , therefore , efficient . When it comes to helping their customers , Serverfarm
OCTOBER 2020