The 2022-2023 energy crisis has had a profound impact on the full IT sector. A worldwide shortage of available power is inhibiting growth of the global data center market. Sourcing adequate power is simply a top precedence of data center operators across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. In this session we will review the energy crisis’ impact on European data centers business, and consequences to its IT infrastructure.
Rapid electricity prices increase, combined with visible shortage of power supplies triggered data centers to search power savings. As a result, IT infrastructure scenery was put at risk. Data centers saw a breach of their plan conditions for the first time and have now reached uncharted territories. Availability of water besides started to play a bigger role, as water is becoming a precious resource, especially during hot summertime times. The 2 resources are interlinked — especially erstwhile it comes to cooling. What happens erstwhile data centers cut cost on cooling systems, and your server machines start to grill? Can hardware infrastructure proceed to operate intact, or is simply a failure inevitable? How far can we draw a line? Is green energy a scalable solution to the energy issues in Europe? What fresh challenges does it bring?
In this session we will deep dive into the frequently unrealized challenges that the power crisis has brought upon an IT infrastructure in Europe. We will besides review any case studies of large players like Meta, Google, Oracle who got into any serious problem over the past 2 summers due to power crisis related ‘complications’:
Facebook's owner Meta Platforms dropped plans to build a data center in the Netherlands, after local activists lobbied against a large task that would drink up green power that could benefit residents.
Due to highly advanced temperatures hitting the United Kingdom last summer, 2 cooler units in an Oracle data center experienced outage, forcing part of the cloud infrastructure to go into a protective shutdown. Google in the UK faced akin problems. What was the impact and what remedy actions were implemented to overcome the hardware infrastructure vulnerability.
Is EMEA bound to fail? What is the energy forecast for our region, and what is the future for European data centers? Let’s check.
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