The Roadmap to Sustainable Digital Infrastructure by 2030

Impact Principle

Improve transparency and accountability of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in every stage of the digital value chain

Target

A Digital Carbon Footprint is adopted as industry standard across the entire digital value chain

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Decarbonize the energy consumed in throughout the digital value chain

Target

The majority of data centers and end customers are consuming in excess of 50% renewable power

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Improve the energy efficiency of IT Hardware

Target

Industry average Utilization rates average 60%

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Reduce the amount of energy required to complete IT workloads by simplifying their design, and improving the wider digital architecture

Target

It becomes industry standard to update, improve and remove software that is too code and compute intensive

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Reduce the amount of energy consumed in the cooling and support functions of the computation of IT workloads

Target

Cooling systems consume 60% less energy than industry

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Increase the energy efficiency of chip, hardware and equipment

Target

Useable Heat capture exceeds 90% as industry standard

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Reduce the amount of energy required to build, operate and decommission a data center

Target

90% of new build data centers are classed as nearly zero energy buildings

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Improve the recyclability and interoperability of IT hardware

Target

90% of IT hardware are designed and built to a new industry developed standard

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Improve the uptake of recycled and refurbished hardware

Target

90% of industry hardware is resold on certified second hand hardware markets

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Extending the design life of IT hardware

Target

It becomes industry standard for servers to be able to function with minor performance drops in its first 5 years of life.

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Improve recycling rates in hardware and their component parts

Target

90% of new build hardware components are recyclable.

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Reduce Resource consumption by designing hardware and facilities with the end of life in mind

Target

It becomes Industry standard for design processes for hardware and facilities incorporate circular design principles

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Improve transparency and accountability of resource consumption and waste in every stage of the digital value chain

Target

A Digital Resource Footprint is adopted as industry standard across the entire digital value chain

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Reduce the amount of fresh water consumption in the digital value chain

Target

90% of data center water consumption comes out as clean as it came in

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Reduce the amount of rare earth metal consumption across the digital value chain

Target

90% of rare material consumption has been removed compared to consumption levels of 2021

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Reduce the amount of pollutants produced on the operation of a data center

Target

90% of data center operational pollutants (typically from backup power and cooling systems) are removed from data center facilities, compared to 2021 levels

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Create transparency and accountability of pollutants produced across the entirety of the digital value chain through a pollutant footprint

Target

A Digital pollutant Footprint is adopted as industry standard across the entire digital value chain

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Reduce the amount of pollutants produced during the manufacturing of IT hardware and construction materials

Target

90% of pollutants have been removed from the manufacturing process, compared to 2021 levels

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Be able to define efficiency and performance by standardizing a definition of Digital Power

Target

Digital power can be quantified and defined, and later benchmarked and improved

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Improve utilization rates and reduce the cost of compute by increase competition and prevent natural monoplies forming

Target

IT becomes unbundled (separation of infrastructure and services), facilitating independent compute and service providers, through vendor neutral marketplaces

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Improving the efficiency and reliability of tomorrow's digital architecture

Target

Rural digitization connects more than 90% of Europe's population with redundant, cheap digital power

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