How Software Can Help Data Centers Cut Energy Use
The race to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and achieve carbon neutrality by mid-century has left businesses in energy-intensive industries scrambling to cut their energy use. With most of the developed world's electricity coming from fossil-fuel-fired power plants, sectors such as data storage, which require a lot of power to run, contribute to a significant portion of global emissions. Efficient software use could be the key to helping data centers cut down on energy use and limit their impact on the environment. Data centers are facilities that store and power servers that house the cloud, or online storage facilities that allow people…