While digital is driving the industry growth, it is also feeding environmentally damaging consumption. Data centers as the engine of the digital economy are the fastest growing hidden monsters. If we run it inefficiently, it will turn into a power-hunger, heavy carbon and environmental threatening beast. Time to tame it through energy efficiency solutions.

1. Energy Efficient Data Centres:
the Engine to a Sustainable Digital Economy
Xiao Wang
Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency
5th October, 2017

2. Digital Economy -
Driver of innovation, competitiveness and growth
Source: MIT Technology Review

3. Achieving Sustainable Energy
forAll by 2030

4. Exponential growth of World Data
Source: efergy.com
Source: InsideBIGDATA

6. Data Center Power Consumption: The Hungry Beast
Source: Yole Developpement
Source: HP Enterprise

7. The Environmental and Climate Toll of Data Centers
• Carbon emissions
• Waste heat
• Water consumption
• Electronic waste
Data is the new oil.
How dirty is your data?

8. Renewable Energy or Energy Efficiency First
• Responsible approach to green the data centers
a. Optimize energy consumption
b. Reduce carbon emission
c. Cut waste
• Challenges to Renewables
• Silver bullet in the Energy Pyramid
Source: LegendPower.com

9. Greening Data Centers through Energy Efficiency
Opportunities and Potentials of Energy Efficiency
Source: Greentech Media
Source: The Berkeley Blog

11. The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency
Copenhagen
Centre on
Energy
Efficiency
International
EE Agencies:
e.g. UN
Environment,
IEA, WEC
Regional
Partners e.g.
UN Regional
Commissions,
research/NGO
community
National and
Subnational
Governments
Development
Banks and
the Finance
Community
Private
Sector energy
efficiency
providers
SEforAll and
the Global EE
Accelerator
Platform
• was formed in September 2013 under an agreement between
UN Environment, the Technical University of Denmark
(“DTU”) and the Government of Denmark
• serves as Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL's) Energy
Efficiency Hub and supports doubling the global rate of EE
improvement by 2030
• coordinates and facilitates implementation of the SEforAll
work program and related energy efficiency activities
globally, by:
• Assisting policy change in countries and cities
• Accelerating energy efficiency through innovation in
delivery models
• Raising the profile of energy efficiency

12. Global Partnership for Energy-Efficient Data Centers
Strategic Goal
Accelerating global uptake of energy efficiency in data centres, towards the achievement of
international climate and energy goals
Objectives of the Partnership
• Raising awareness of technologies, practices and socio-environmental benefits of efficient data centres
globally.
• Facilitating the integration of energy efficiency strategies into data centre investment, construction
and operation plans.
• Building innovative and inclusive public-private partnership models and improving the investment
environment for energy efficient data centres.
• Supporting energy efficient data centre project implementation in priority countries.

13. Global Partnership for Energy-Efficient Data Centers
Project Activity Structure
Global Partnership for Energy-Efficient
Data Centers
Cooling DES Power IT AI
Technology Projects Advocacy
• Market study
• Supporting policies &
regulations
• Investment opportunities
• National standards
• Demonstration site
• Technical briefing
• Policy briefing
• Webinar
• Country workshop
• Global event
• Solution mapping
• Best practice
• International
Standards & Labelling
• Training course
• Certification
• Global talent pool

14. Global Partnership for Energy-Efficient Data Centers
• Best-practice and efficient data centre owners and investors gain increased visibility and higher
profile on their success stories, through well-established global knowledge sharing mechanisms.
• Hyper-scale data centre owners and operators gain access to a brokered and objective dialogue
with government policy makers, on overcoming existing barriers to more efficient data centre
investments.
• Medium- and small- sized data centres become better engaged in efficient data centre investments
through increased access to information on efficiency potential, best available efficiency solutions and
products, and financing opportunities.
• Governments at national and local levels are able to create more favourable investment
environments for efficient data centre projects.
Expected Outcomes

15. Global Partnership for Energy-Efficient Data Centers
Governance Structure

16. Global Partnership for Energy-Efficient Data Centers
Resources and upcoming knowledge sharing events and activities
• Recorded Webinar - "IDC Challenges and Opportunities", Online training
• Webinar - China exclusive version, "IDC Challenges and Opportunities" October, Online training
• Webinar - "The Danish Model of Sustainable Data Centers", December, Online
• Energy Efficiency Global Conference, May, 2018, Copenhagen Denmark
• Annual Award Show 2018

17. COPENHAGEN
2017

18. Want to build a sustainable digital economy together?
Join us. Your voice deserves to be heard by the world.
Global Partnership for Energy-Efficient Data Centers
Xiao Wang xwang@dtu.dk
Nordhavn, UN City, Copenhagen Denmark