The data center industry has an ever-increasing environmental impact, which is estimated to be comparable to that of the aviation sector. This implies that technology companies and data center providers must pay increasing attention to the issue of environmental sustainability. Most of the efforts in this direction have been and continue to be made on the efficiency of the facilities. Indeed, a lot of data center have today high levels of efficiency. What has not yet been taken into consideration is instead the environmental sustainability forms global value chain perspective, from raw materials used for the construction of the data centers and related systems, up to their end-of-life disposal. This work aims to be a starting point in this sense, as it seeks to draw a tentative value chain of the data center industry. The latter will be general, as further research will have to be conducted, but at the same time applicable to most cases.
L’industria dei data center ha un impatto ambientale sempre crescente, tanto che oggi si stima esso sia paragonabile a quello del settore del trasporto aereo. Questo implica che le società tecnologiche e i provider di data center debbano porre sempre più attenzione al tema della sostenibilità ambientale. La maggior parte degli sforzi in tal senso sono stati e continuano ad essere fatti sull’efficientamento di tali luoghi, tanto che numerosi data center vantano oggi livello di efficienza elevati. Ciò che non è ancora stato preso in considerazione è invece la sostenibilità ambientale riguardante l’intera catena globale del valore, partendo quindi dalle materie prime utilizzate per la costruzione dei data center e dei relativi sistemi, fino ad arrivare al loro smaltimento. Questo lavoro vuole essere un punto di partenza in tal senso, poiché cerca di ricostruire la catena del valore dell’industria dei data center. Quest’ultima sarà generale, poiché successive ricerche dovranno essere condotte, ma allo stesso tempo applicabile alla maggior parte dei casi.
Sostenibilità dei data center: una prospettiva della catena globale del valore
PEGORARO, RICCARDO
2022/2023
Abstract
The data center industry has an ever-increasing environmental impact, which is estimated to be comparable to that of the aviation sector. This implies that technology companies and data center providers must pay increasing attention to the issue of environmental sustainability. Most of the efforts in this direction have been and continue to be made on the efficiency of the facilities. Indeed, a lot of data center have today high levels of efficiency. What has not yet been taken into consideration is instead the environmental sustainability forms global value chain perspective, from raw materials used for the construction of the data centers and related systems, up to their end-of-life disposal. This work aims to be a starting point in this sense, as it seeks to draw a tentative value chain of the data center industry. The latter will be general, as further research will have to be conducted, but at the same time applicable to most cases.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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