Organised by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, "Méditerranée du Futur" will offer a meeting space open to public and private actors recognised at Euro-Mediterranean and international level for their contribution to the definition and implementation of innovative and ambitious solutions in the Mediterranean.

This session took place in Montreal as part of the Digital Infra Montreal program. To find out more information of their upcoming events, please click the link here.

Google have been at the forefront of the renewable buyer revolution for a number of years and have recently restated their commitment to the concept of the circular economy - working towards a circular Google within a sustainable world.

Join this fireside chat to gain deep insight into Google's sustainability efforts beyond renewable energy procurement from Alaa who leads the global sustainability initiatives and program at Google.

This front row seat opportunity will see Susanna and Alaa share in a dialogue with the audience their step by step journey towards Urban Sustainable Design, and Circular Economy Metrics for the data center to combat climate change. Their ambition is to inspire data center players to address the dirty clouds and to embrace sustainability beyond PUE and PPAs.

This session took place on November 6, 2019. To access the event page information, please click the link here.

How is the data center industry going to sustain growth rates that support exponential data usage in the face of a global climate emergency? Will this ever be a sustainable industry? Will governments intervene or will it be consumers that hold the industry to account? Where’s the next leap in efficiency going to come from? We have pulled together leaders from across the digital infrastructure ecosystem to try to answer these questions and to debate where the industry goes next as the ‘heat’ turns up.

This session took place on November 5, 2019. To receive a link to the full presentation, please click the link here.

Today’s Urban areas provide a disparate quality of life and quality of services to their populations, and they inflict a mostly adverse impact on our natural environment.  Our mission is to design and re-engineer our urban environments for the future to provide modern services in ways that allow humans and nature to flourish.

Sustainable Urban Systems are systems that support connected cities, citizens in the communities that respond to the growth of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). We can design Sustainable Urban Systems for Next Gen Data Centers in cities with advances in Energy Smart Technology,  AI that respond and adapt more readily to changing climate environmental pressures and growth demands.

Susanna Kass, a member of SDGDC and climate 50, was invited as a speaker to talk about ‘Sustainable Urban Systems Designing and Building Next Gen Sustainable Data Centers’ You can click here to see her slides. To check the event information, feel free to access here.

To find out more about High Tech Summit: The future of green energy and data, please click here for more information.

This panel will dive deep into key edge capabilities that Equinix developed alongside its partners to create an end-to-end deployment of 3D video and IoT communication. The solution relies upon intelligent policy control of a 4G/5G mobile core in regional data centers and micro edge data centers located in close proximity with end users.

Panelists include Akamai, Windriver, Equinix, Ciena, Affirmed, Tiledmedia (code name AWECAT - based on the participating companies' names); with each partner demonstrating its own unique capability of the end-to-end solution.

This session took place on October 22, 2019. To access the event information, please click the link here.

According to the latest IPCC report, we have 11 years left to limit the climate change catastrophe and over the next decade, data centers will rank among the largest users of electrical power on the planet. With an anticipated threefold increase in global internet traffic from 2017 to 2020, the internet’s energy footprint is expected to rise further and we must act now, as an industry in order to prevent any further significant damage to our climate and speed up our shift to renewable energy. Additionally, internet consumers and colocation tenants alike are beginning to pay attention to the degree to which IT is contributing to the global carbon footprint. During this fireside chat, find out what actions are QTS Data Centers are taking to help re-route the industry to a carbon-free future for digital infrastructure.

This session took place on October 21, 2019. To see the event information, please click the link via here.

The shift from linear to circular models for data center energy efficiency and ecosystem sustainability.

This session took place on September 18, 2019. To see the event information, please click the link here.

We are on the brink of a cloud-first epoch with 83% of enterprise workloads in the cloud by 2020. The internet giants providing the infrastructure to support adoption are tasked with balancing vast data volumes and compute with sustainable expansion and energy procurement. This fireside chat will highlight the optimizing market based rate of energy for the future of energy procurement.

To access the full presentation, please click the link here to complete the request form.

This session took place on July 12, 2019 at Marriott Marquis San Francisco

Google have been at the forefront of the renewable buyer revolution for a number of years. Gary manages the company’s energy portfolio, working closely with utility and development partners to secure clean energy for operations and has secured well over 2.6 gigawatts of renewable energy under long term contracts, globally, making Google the largest corporate offtaker of renewables in the world. Join this fireside chat to gain a front row seat into the the trials, tribulations and wins the hyperscaler have made in a bid to achieve zero carbon energy.

This session took place on July 12, 2019. To receive a link to the full presentation, please click here to fill up the request form.

This event was part of the DCD>San Francisco 2019 held at Marriott Marquis San Francisco.

Today, just over half (51.2%) of the world's population is online according to the International Telecommunication Union. The world’s internet users has now passed the 4 billion mark and the ‘data explosion’ is consuming 2% of the world’s energy (or is it?). With the number of internet users projected to reach 5 billion by 2020 many of whom will be on smart devices, this industry needs to assess how rapid growth in data volume will impact everything from energy and water use to site acquisition and the construction pipeline.

How is this industry going to sustain the data center infrastructure growth rates to support this in the face of a global climate emergency? Will this ever be a sustainable industry? Will governments intervene or will it be consumers that hold us to account? Where can the industry innovate to do more - technology or partnerships?

This session took place place on July 12, 2019. To access the full presentation, please complete the form via the link here.

The proliferation of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), machine learning, big data and the need for near real-time analytics are all drivers for the need of a digital utility that embraces technology as one of its pillars of success. This natural progression will allow us to leverage resources unique to utilities, not commonly available to commercial providers and edge entities. These resources create significant overhead for companies that should focus on technology and are the same resources that PSE utilized to decentralize their data centers and create a diversified robust infrastructure for our internal operations; real estate, fiber, power, and right-of-way - all things necessary for rapid and agile deployment of “edge”. Susanna and Chris will outline what infrastructure is needed at a foundation level, which we can begin to construct now, while we continue to respond to a ‘connected’ marketplace as it presents itself.

To receive a link to the full presentation, please fill up the form via the link here.

With data center growth continuing unabated, site selection remains a key strategic challenge determining revenues, total cost of ownership and lifecycle. Evaluation factors are myriad and complex with environmental risk, taxes and regulations, transportation, construction and permitting costs and speed to market all playing a role.

With huge, 24/7 power demands however, perhaps the most significant is power availability, connectivity and the support of the energy network. Data centers are undoubtedly key customers for utilities and this looks set to continue, as data center electricity use is on-track to reach a consumption of 140 billion kilowatt-hours by 2020. As such, utilities play a key role in addressing the needs of data centers and providing the foundation for successful data center growth.

• Understand the evolving relationship between data centers and utilities to support long-term data center requirements

• How to project-manage site selection projects to deliver new data centers successfully

• The role of PPAs, Demand-Response and new technologies in meeting growing demand

This session took place on April 1, 2019. To access the event information, please click the link here.