Robert Linsdell , Managing Director Australia and New Zealand , Vertiv , and Cal Lahteenmaa , Technical Director , Asia Pacific , Vertiv , highlight the importance of data centre sustainability as organisations continue to invest in hybrid IT and workforces become increasingly virtualised .

impact of the pandemic , hybrid IT has become the talk of the street . Business agility and flexibility are the new craze , but more importantly a vital trend to get ourselves back to reality .

Regardless of how grounded a business was pre-pandemic , hybrid cloud is offering a safe place to land in the throes of Business Continuity . According to IDC , more than 90 % of organizations worldwide will rely on a combination of data centers , private clouds or public clouds to run their businesses .

Energy the essence of our new reality

So , with more reliance on cloud technologies and Edge Computing , it ’ s safe to say this year has highlighted the sheer importance of data center capacity . You see , everything you do in ‘ the cloud ’ relies on a vast , energyintensive , on-the-ground data center .

According to the International Energy Agency , data center power consumption has flatlined in the three years prior to the pandemic . In this time , we estimate data centers were using up to 5 % of our total energy use .

This means the data center industry has remained a significant consumer of energy , and with the pandemic upping the volume of traveling data , we estimate total energy consumption will climb much higher as organizations continue to invest in hybrid IT and workforces and experiences become increasingly virtualized .

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