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Enhancing Data Center Sustainability Through Clean Tech

Renewable Energy World: The emergence of the internet has enhanced our need for data in real time through multiple devices. Data needs could be for business, entertainment or collaboration. The latency level for those use-cases is decreasing dramatically. With evolution of cloud computing, most enterprises are shifting their technology applications to the cloud to move away from the CAPEX model to the OPEX model, thus optimizing capital allocation to realize the benefits of shared economy.

In this cloud computing era, data centers are enabling colocation of numerous customers and cloud operators at the same place. Some of these data centers are used as storage hubs as well.

This change has necessitated the need for robust data center infrastructure for larger companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon, or use of a third-party multi-tenant data center, such as Equinix and Digital Realty. Most data centers are large facilities that are energy intensive with a 24-7 source of power available with low downtimes.

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