Sustainability Shaping Data Center Strategies

As with the rest of the IT industry, sustainability is becoming a frontrunner in datacenter trends.

“This is relatively new – maybe the last year or two. It’s centered here in Europe, and we’re going to be the leaders have this,” said McKernan.

Kevin Brown is SVP, EcoStruxure Solutions and CMO of Secure Power Division at Schneider Electric.

“Sustainability as an overall topic is now being driven by shareholders,” Brown said. “It’s being written by customers. It’s being driven by government regulations; it’s all three of those, depending on where you are in the world. Regardless of the regulations, there’s this very compelling thing that’s happening. Just these general market forces are driving a level of conversation on this that is quite great to see.”