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Work item:
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L.Suppl.55 (ex Suppl.L.DC&SDG)
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Subject/title:
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Environmental efficiency and impacts on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of data centres and cloud computing
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Status:
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Agreed on 2022-10-27 [Issued from previous study period]
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Approval process:
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Agreement
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Type of work item:
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Supplement
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Version:
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New
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Equivalent number:
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-
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Timing:
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Liaison:
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-
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Supporting members:
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Orange, Ericsson
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Summary:
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As the role of data centre and cloud computing keeps increasing, so are the concerns over their energy use and energy cost, and the associated impacts on climate change and environment. In recent years, the data centre and cloud industry has made great progress in enhancing energy efficiency and adopting renewable energy sources. However, a sole focus on energy efficiency may cause burden shifting and overlook other relevant environmental impacts stemming from other parts of the data centres' life cycle and cloud computing value chain.
Therefore, to support the development of sustainable data centres and cloud computing services, this Supplement aims to explore the environmental sustainability of data centres during their entire life cycle, factoring in a broad spectrum of energy and environmental aspects that needs to be addressed to achieve the relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An integrated approach addressing both technical and implementation challenges will be applied to yield actionable insights to policy makers and industry experts.
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Comment:
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The title was changed during the SG5 meeting 17-27 October 2022
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First registration in the WP:
2021-12-13 20:24:31
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Last update:
2022-11-29 21:43:31
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