Strategies for Improving the Sustainability of Data Centers via Energy Mix, Energy Conservation, and Circular Energy

Manganelli, Matteo; Soldati, Alessandro; Martirano, Luigi; Ramakrishna, Seeram

doi:10.3390/su13116114

Cited by 33 publications

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“…Finally, in the context of CE, researches exploring the energy-related issue in connection with blockchain applications are also investigating consumption issues connected with such a technology [ 96 ]. For instance, Manganelli et al [ 97 ] suggest that widespread adoption of those blockchain applications might have significant environmental repercussions, thus hindering the CE transition. Even if energy generation and management represent another consistent area of researches, topics belonging to such cluster seem quite independent and less interlink with other fields of research in CE.…”

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Fostering the Circular Economy with Blockchain Technology: Insights from a Bibliometric Approach

2023

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The circular economy is an emerging paradigm with important economic, environmental, and societal implications. As the world faces such paradigm shifts, new and radical technologies are urgently needed to enable it; blockchain technology can assist to accomplish the aforementioned circular economy shift given its decentralization and distributiveness principles as well as its smart contract capability. This study represents one of the first attempts to analyze those academic research domains together adopting a science mapping technique. By adopting such approach, the study envisages research challenges, highlights important research gaps, and proposes future paths in the blockchain and circular economy fields. Among the others, key findings show that blockchain technology as a tool for promoting the circular economy has been extensively researched at the micro (i.e., firm) and meso levels (i.e., supply chain) more effort on how blockchain can support the development of circular smart cites and measurement tools for providing information to stakeholders and assisting in policy creation expresses the greatest potential in terms of novel research. Moreover, the research suggests that another possible stream of research might be dealing on how blockchain together with physical technologies (e.g., 3D printing, RFID), can support the transition towards the circular economy.

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Fostering the Circular Economy with Blockchain Technology: Insights from a Bibliometric Approach

2023

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“…However, their specific integration within a data center has been studied much less. Some researchers, such as Ebrahimi et al (2014), Guitart (2017), Li et al (2018), Levy (2019), Cheng et al (2021), and Manganelli et al (2021), have studied the relationships between data centers' internal components. Even at an early stage, Jamalzadeh and Behravan sought to establish a holistic framework of data center-related metrics (Jamalzadeh and Behravan, 2012).…”

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A material social view on data center waste heat: Novel uses and metrics

2023

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Today's data centers use substantial amounts of the world's electrical supply. However, in line with circular economy concepts, much of this energy can be reused. Such reuse includes the heating of buildings, but also commodity dehydration, electricity production and energy storage. This multi-disciplinary paper presents several novel applications for data center waste heat. Next, the paper accounts for three case studies, taken from three different societal contexts: urban Malaysia, rural Costa Rica and semi-urban Sweden. A discussion on data center energy metrics leads to the development of a new metric, Datacenter Energy Sustainability Score (DESS), which is evaluated within the three use cases. Last, it is shown how a material social view on metrics provides a way past a problem that has haunted the data center industry for the last 15 years, whilst benefitting both data center owners who want to compete through sustainability as well as stakeholders from governments on local, regional and national levels. The paper makes clear that a sustainability strategy should be based on a material social view and stretch beyond the building itself. In fact, and as demonstrated by the relevance of DESS, modern data centers are so energy-efficient that data center sustainability is no longer mainly an engineering issue, but a matter requiring multi-disciplinary insights, approaches and collaboration.

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“…Fossil fuels contribute to massive greenhouse gas emissions, which affect human health, society, and the environment. However, the cost of a low-carbon energy system is high (Manganelli et al, 2021). The COVID-19 situation has prompted governments and policymakers to rethink future investment in eco-friendly energy areas in alignment with the sustainable development goals framework of the United Nations.…”

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Green Practices: A Solution for Environmental Deregulation and the Future of Energy Efficiency in the Post-COVID-19 Era

2022

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The world has paid increasing attention to energy efficiency projects since the Paris agreement and UN climate summit. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the process of the green energy transition, which has attracted considerable attention from economists, environmentalists, and international organizations and has led to significant research in energy. This study addresses the importance of green energy practices in the post-COVID-19 era to deal with environmental deregulation using bibliometric analysis. Data were extracted from the Scopus database from 2020 to 2022. Results indicate that China gained a prominent place in publishing topic-related articles. However, Italy stands at the top position in total and average article citations. Sustainability is the most productive journal, followed by Energies and the Journal of Cleaner Production. Nazarbayev University and the University of Cambridge are the most contributing research institutes. In general, the cooperation of authors, institutes, and countries strengthens research; however, collaboration at the author level across the nation was lower than in others. The study highlights three research streams and four themes by systematically conducting a bibliometric coupling and co-occurrence network that anticipates and significantly segregates literature. Bibliometric coupling identifies three research streams of sustainable green business strategies, green infrastructure requirements, and green solutions and opportunities from COVID-19. Furthermore, the co-occurrence network proposes four main themes related to green innovation in the epidemic era, security and sustainable development goals with green practices, public health protection and green finance, and investment and risk management. The results provide insights into current research in the field of energy and will assist future work promoting environmentally friendly projects.

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Strategies for Improving the Sustainability of Data Centers via Energy Mix, Energy Conservation, and Circular Energy

Cited by 33 publications

References 75 publications

Fostering the Circular Economy with Blockchain Technology: Insights from a Bibliometric Approach

Fostering the Circular Economy with Blockchain Technology: Insights from a Bibliometric Approach

A material social view on data center waste heat: Novel uses and metrics

Green Practices: A Solution for Environmental Deregulation and the Future of Energy Efficiency in the Post-COVID-19 Era

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