Analyzing Data Centers' Impacts on the Environment and Pathways to Sustainability

Authors

  • Manisha Bharambe, Poonam Ponde, Harshita Vachhani, Smita Ghorpade, Dipita Dhande

Keywords:

Data centers, Environment, digital footprint, electricity consumption, digital footprint, Tree plantation, carbon emission

Abstract

In the digital era, due to huge data generation across various sectors, there is a need to store and process a vast amount of data. Data centers play a crucial role in this demand to support everything from internet services to cloud computing and manage a huge amount of information. As demand rises globally, the need for data centers increases. However, Data centers have serious environmental consequences associated with their quick growth. Due to their ongoing operation and cooling requirements, data centers are energy-intensive, which raises carbon emissions and the need for electricity. The strain on the environment and natural resources increases with the size of the global digital footprint. Data centers have a significant environmental impact due to their high electricity consumption, substantial water usage, and the materials used in their construction. This research paper aims to investigate the ecological impacts of data centers, focusing on electricity consumption, carbon emissions, and resource utilization. This research focuses on analyzing the impact of data centers and finding the pathways to mitigate it. The tree plantation near to data centers and the geographical area should be consider while building the data centers.

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Published

27.12.2024

How to Cite

Manisha Bharambe. (2024). Analyzing Data Centers’ Impacts on the Environment and Pathways to Sustainability. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, 12(23s), 3387 –. Retrieved from https://www.ijisae.org/index.php/IJISAE/article/view/7708

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Vol. 12 No. 23s (2024)

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Research Article

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