Energy Resource Management

If data centers and other digital infrastructure are 100% renewably powered, our increasing reliance on the internet can accelerate our transition to a renewably powered economy. But, if our growing digital infrastructure is built in the opposite direction, locking us into a dramatic increase in the demand for electricity from coal and other dirty sources of energy that are changing our planet’s climate, it will be far more costly and take an unnecessarily long time to reach a renewably powered economy.

- Greenpeace

This chapter will help you optimize energy resource management within your information and communication technology (ICT) equipment. You will also learn how companies managing their energy more effectively can significantly impact industrial competitiveness, energy cost structure, and scope two greenhouse gas emissions.

This chapter’s main objectives are to better understand the energy consumption from IT assets and primarily...