Data centres have assumed tremendous importance in the last decade as India continues to become more and more digital. They contribute significantly to several National benefits including the ways Businesses are done, reduction in fossil fuel use by reducing travel for trade & domestic transactions, man-day savings involved in day-to-day activities, IT enabled services, speed of communications, employment generation and several others. IT infrastructure and data centres are vital in translating the country's vision of emerging as 'Digital India'.
Data centres are huge power guzzlers and require uninterrupted power supply for maintaining stability of operations even at times of power fluctuations and outages in order to eliminate unavailability or loss of data. Globally, data centres account for about 3% of energy use, equivalent to about 200 million tons of carbon emissions, which is expected to grow by over 30% every year. Thus, there is a requirement to bring about a transformation in the way data centres are designed and operated maintained to further reduce energy use. CII-IGBC and LBNL have been working together from several years to introduce energy efficiency in Indian Data Centres. Our joint efforts would enable the DC industry to gain global competency and also to demonstrate energy performance near to global benchmarking.
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