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2020年，應對氣候變化需采取迫切的行動，已成為頭條新聞。毀滅性的野火席卷了加利福尼亞，俄勒岡和科羅拉多，同時一系列歷史性的颶風襲擊了墨西哥灣沿岸。這些災難是公眾意識的一個轉折點，它使人們認識到，氣候變化不是未來的威脅，而是當前的現實。針對這一點，我們啟動了數據中心前沿特別報告系列，以探索綠色數據中心和托管行業的可持續性發展。
The urgent need for climate action is writlarge in the headlines of 2020. Devastating wildfires have ravaged California,Oregon and Colorado, while a historic series of powerful hurricanes slammed theGulf Coast. These disasters have been a tipping point in public awareness,driving home the fact that a changed climate is not a future threat, but acurrent reality. This launches the Data Center Frontier Special Report seriesexploring green data centers and the sustainability push in the colocationindustry.
過去十年來，數據中心行業一直積極地推動的應對氣候變化行動，云計算平臺率先推動了可持續運營以及企業可再生能源的發展。越來越多的企業放棄碳排放量高的本地數據中心，遷移到由云平臺和托管設施運營的更綠色的基礎設施，這種影響將在未來幾年內進一步擴大。
The data center industry has been a forcefor positive change on climate action over the past decade, with cloudcomputing platforms pioneering advances in sustainable operations and corporateadoption of renewable energy. This impact will be amplified in coming years asmore businesses abandon carbon-heavy on-premises data centers and migrate togreener infrastructure operated by cloud platforms and colocation facilities.
在這份特別報告中，我們將探討綠色數據中心應對氣候變化、減少碳排放影響的具體戰略，以及未來可持續性發展的最佳實踐。
In this special report, we will examine therole of green data centers as a catalyst for action on climate change, specificstrategies that are reducing carbon impact, and the best ways to embrace thesustainability imperative going forward.
云計算的巨大能源足跡使數據中心行業引領全球轉向可再生能源業務。數字化轉型擴大了這一機遇的影響，將我們的生活大部分轉移到了在線平臺上：COVID-19大流行和遠程工作的需求加快了數字化轉型的趨勢，使得非接觸式貿易和自動化成為減少病毒的暴露工具。
The massive energy footprint of cloudcomputing enables the data center industry to drive a global shift torenewably-powered business. This opportunity is magnified by a digitaltransformation that is shifting much of our lives to online platforms —a trendthat has been dramatically accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the needfor remote work, contactless commerce and automation as tools to reduce viralexposure.
向云平臺的遷移已大大減少了許多IT部門的碳足跡。但是，現在是數據中心用戶和運營商提高水平的時候，不僅因為可持續性是一項好的政策，而且這是一項良好的業務。
The migration to cloud platforms hasslashed the carbon footprint of many IT departments. But it is time for the datacenter users and operators to raise their game, not just because sustainabilityis good policy, but because it is good business.
客戶和利益相關者需要對氣候影響負責，將可持續性作為選擇地點和供應商的首要因素。
Customers and stakeholders are demandingaccountability on climate impact, pushing sustainability near the top of the agendain selecting sites and providers.
數據中心行業處于獨特的地位，可以加快采用可持續發展的實踐，并減少對氣候變化的損害。
The data center industry is in a uniqueposition to accelerate the adoption of sustainable practices and reduce thedamage to our changing climate.
風能和其他可持續能源對數據中心的戰略重要性正在提高。（照片由RawFilm拍攝并在Unsplash上刊登）
Wind power and other sustainale energysources are growing in strategic importance for data centers. (Photo by RawFilmon Unsplash
近年來，隨著大型云平臺對氣候行動做出了積極的承諾，人們對可持續發展的關注日益增強。微軟在一月份表示，到2030年將成為“碳排放量為負”的公司，并于2021年7月實施新的采購程序，以激勵供應商減少碳排放。
The focus on sustainability has intensifiedin recent years with large cloud platforms making aggressive commitments toclimate action. In January Microsoft said it will become “carbon negative” by2030, and implement new procurement procedures in July 2021 to incentivizesuppliers to reduce their carbon emissions.
與此同時，亞馬遜云科技公司承諾，到2025年將使用100％可再生能源，這一行為比2030年時間表更早，以實現亞馬遜更廣泛的基礎設施運營。如果不加快購買可再生能源來支持亞馬遜云服務，該目標就無法實現。
Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services hascommitted to use 100% renewable energy by 2025, ahead of the 2030 timeline forAmazon’s broader operations. That goal cannot be met without a majoracceleration of renewable energy purchases to support Amazon Web Services.
這些公告對數據中心行業具有重大影響。隨著最大的云建設者加深對綠色能源的承諾，整個數據中心供應鏈必須以新的方式擁抱可持續發展。超大規模客戶群體推動了數據中心提供商在全球范圍內強勁的增長，使得他們每年租賃出數百兆瓦的空間。
These announcements have huge implicationsfor the data center industry. As the largest cloud builders deepen theircommitments to green energy, the entire data center supply chain must embracesustainability in new ways. Hyperscale customers have driven much of the growthfor data center providers with a global footprint, leasing hundreds ofmegawatts of space on an annual basis.
超大型企業是推動綠色數據中心發展的領導者，但他們并不孤單。治理與問責研究所指出，標準普爾500指數（S&P 500 Index）中有86％的公司在2018年發布了可持續發展報告，高于2011年的20％。
The hyperscale players are leaders in thedrive for greener data centers, but they are not alone. Eighty six percent ofthe companies in the S&P 500 Index published a sustainability report in2018, up from only 20% in 2011, notes the Governance and AccountabilityInstitute.
451 Research的最新調查發現，近三分之一的多租戶數據中心（MTDC）代表表示，他們的所有客戶都希望對效率和可持續性做出具有合同約束力的承諾；而另外44％的代表則表示這是大多數客戶的訴求，并不是全部。
A recent survey from 451 Research foundthat almost a third of multi-tenant data center (MTDC) representatives said alltheir customers want contractually binding commitments to efficiency andsustainability, while another 44% said it is true for most of their customers.
451提到：“大型企業和IT服務提供商（尤其是大型云公司）通常對基礎設施效率有嚴格的要求，因為它們會篩選并放到各自的可持續性報告中。簡而言之：他們無法使用沒有優先考慮高效和可持續性標準的MTDC提供商。”
“Major enterprises and IT service providers(particularly larger cloud firms) typically have stringent infrastructureefficiency demands because it filters through to their own respectivesustainability reports,” 451 said. “Simply put: they cannot afford to use MTDCproviders that do not prioritize high efficiency and sustainability standards.”
數據中心行業可持續發展之旅
數據中心行業的綠色創新經歷了兩個主要階段。
There have been two major phases of greeninnovation in the data center industry.
第一階段，大約為2007年至2014年，最大的數據中心運營商大大提高了其IT設備和數據中心設施的效率。對于像Google，Facebook和亞馬遜云科技這樣的公司，意味著從為服務器供電的芯片到電力基礎設施和冷卻系統的各個運營方面都在進行創新。這種對效率的不懈關注使得他們極大地節省了電力，從而削減了這些互聯網業務的碳排放影響。這些在效率方面的努力帶來了更綠色的底線和更環保的數據中心。
In the first phase, from roughly 2007-2014,the largest data center operators dramatically improved the efficiency of theirIT equipment and data center facilities. For companies like Google, Facebookand Amazon Web Services, this meant innovating in every aspect of operations,from the chips powering servers to the power infrastructure and coolingsystems. This relentless focus on efficiency yielded huge savings inelectricity, slashing the carbon impact of these Internet businesses. Theefficiency efforts brought a greener bottom line as well as greener datacenters.
通過在數字業務的供應鏈上施行可持續發展的實踐，數據中心行業將成為采取氣候行動的更強大力量。
By imposing sustainable practices upon thesupply chain for digital business, the data center industry will be an evenmore potent force for climate action.
在該行業可持續發展旅程的第二階段，大型數據中心運營商將重點放在采購可再生能源上，來為其運營提供動力，而不是使用基于煤炭的能源。其他云服務商和數據中心房地產投資信托基金已采用Google對可再生能源的電力購買協議（PPA）。因此，領先的技術公司現在是可再生能源的最大用戶，也是太陽能和風力發電能源市場上最活躍的買家。
In the second phase of the industry’ssustainability journey, large data center operators have focused on procuringrenewable energy to power their operations instead of electricity sources basedon coal. Google’s use of power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewable energyhas been adopted by other cloud providers and data center REITs. As a result,leading technology companies are now the largest users of renewable energy, andthe most active buyers in energy markets for solar and wind power generation.
可再生能源采購最初集中在超大型企業，但多租戶數據中心服務提供商最近開始與非營利組織合作，開發最佳實踐，使托管客戶可以要求其數據中心提供商給予可再生能源直通抵扣券。
Renewable purchasing was initiallyconcentrated at hyperscale players, but multi-tenant data center serviceproviders have recently begun working with nonprofits to develop best practicesfor allowing colocation customers to claim pass-through credits for therenewable energy arranged by their data center provider.
由于最大的參與者要求其供應商記錄其采購流程并通過可持續性視角對其進行審核，這為數據中心行業的綠色之旅的下一階段奠定了基礎-即帶來整個供應鏈的全面轉變。
This has laid the groundwork for the nextphase of the data center industry’s green journey—a wholesale shift of theentire supply chain, as the largest players require their suppliers to documenttheir procurement processes and vet them through a sustainability lens.
通過在數字業務的供應鏈上施加可持續發展的實踐，數據中心行業將成為采取氣候行動的更強大力量。為了實現其最大的影響，該行業需要贏得企業客戶的信任，否則這些客戶會繼續將 IT 運營托管在包括許多含大量碳足跡舊設施的本地數據中心。
By imposing sustainable practices upon thesupply chain for digital business, the data center industry will be an evenmore potent force for climate action. To realize its greatest impact, theindustry will need to win the confidence of enterprise customers that continueto house IT operations in on-premises data centers, including many olderfacilities with an outsized carbon footprint.
由于數據中心極大地提高了其能源效率，在云計算和在線服務爆炸性增長的時期內，工業用電量略有增加。
Data centers have dramatically improvedtheir energy efficiency, resulting in a small increase in industry electricityuse during a period of explosive growth for cloud computing and onlineservices.
隨著企業IT用戶加倍關注可持續性發展，他們將尋求合適的數據中心服務提供商，這些提供商可以充當合作伙伴，以減少碳排放，履行企業氣候承諾并打造綠色地球。
As enterprise IT users redouble their focuson sustainability, they will be seeking data center service providers who canserve as partners as they slash carbon impact, deliver on corporate climatecommitments, and build a greener planet.
在接下來的幾周中，請繼續關注本報告系列，報告會包含諸如節水和管理、消除柴油發電機、熱回收等相關的主題，并與來自可持續數據中心未來的主要聲音進行對話。
Follow this report series over the comingweeks as explore topics like water conservation and management, eliminatingdiesel generators, heat recycling and more, as well as share a conversationwith leading voices on the future of sustainable data centers.
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2020年，應對氣候變化需采取迫切的行動，已成為頭條新聞。毀滅性的野火席卷了加利福尼亞，俄勒岡和科羅拉多，同時一系列歷史性的颶風襲擊了墨西哥灣沿岸。這些災難是公眾意識的一個轉折點，它使人們認識到，氣候變化不是未來的威脅，而是當前的現實。針對這一點，我們啟動了數據中心前沿特別報告系列，以探索綠色數據中心和托管行業的可持續性發展。
The urgent need for climate action is writlarge in the headlines of 2020. Devastating wildfires have ravaged California,Oregon and Colorado, while a historic series of powerful hurricanes slammed theGulf Coast. These disasters have been a tipping point in public awareness,driving home the fact that a changed climate is not a future threat, but acurrent reality. This launches the Data Center Frontier Special Report seriesexploring green data centers and the sustainability push in the colocationindustry.
過去十年來，數據中心行業一直積極地推動的應對氣候變化行動，云計算平臺率先推動了可持續運營以及企業可再生能源的發展。越來越多的企業放棄碳排放量高的本地數據中心，遷移到由云平臺和托管設施運營的更綠色的基礎設施，這種影響將在未來幾年內進一步擴大。
The data center industry has been a forcefor positive change on climate action over the past decade, with cloudcomputing platforms pioneering advances in sustainable operations and corporateadoption of renewable energy. This impact will be amplified in coming years asmore businesses abandon carbon-heavy on-premises data centers and migrate togreener infrastructure operated by cloud platforms and colocation facilities.
在這份特別報告中，我們將探討綠色數據中心應對氣候變化、減少碳排放影響的具體戰略，以及未來可持續性發展的最佳實踐。
In this special report, we will examine therole of green data centers as a catalyst for action on climate change, specificstrategies that are reducing carbon impact, and the best ways to embrace thesustainability imperative going forward.
云計算的巨大能源足跡使數據中心行業引領全球轉向可再生能源業務。數字化轉型擴大了這一機遇的影響，將我們的生活大部分轉移到了在線平臺上：COVID-19大流行和遠程工作的需求加快了數字化轉型的趨勢，使得非接觸式貿易和自動化成為減少病毒的暴露工具。
The massive energy footprint of cloudcomputing enables the data center industry to drive a global shift torenewably-powered business. This opportunity is magnified by a digitaltransformation that is shifting much of our lives to online platforms —a trendthat has been dramatically accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the needfor remote work, contactless commerce and automation as tools to reduce viralexposure.
向云平臺的遷移已大大減少了許多IT部門的碳足跡。但是，現在是數據中心用戶和運營商提高水平的時候，不僅因為可持續性是一項好的政策，而且這是一項良好的業務。
The migration to cloud platforms hasslashed the carbon footprint of many IT departments. But it is time for the datacenter users and operators to raise their game, not just because sustainabilityis good policy, but because it is good business.
客戶和利益相關者需要對氣候影響負責，將可持續性作為選擇地點和供應商的首要因素。
Customers and stakeholders are demandingaccountability on climate impact, pushing sustainability near the top of the agendain selecting sites and providers.
數據中心行業處于獨特的地位，可以加快采用可持續發展的實踐，并減少對氣候變化的損害。
The data center industry is in a uniqueposition to accelerate the adoption of sustainable practices and reduce thedamage to our changing climate.
風能和其他可持續能源對數據中心的戰略重要性正在提高。（照片由RawFilm拍攝并在Unsplash上刊登）
Wind power and other sustainale energysources are growing in strategic importance for data centers. (Photo by RawFilmon Unsplash
近年來，隨著大型云平臺對氣候行動做出了積極的承諾，人們對可持續發展的關注日益增強。微軟在一月份表示，到2030年將成為“碳排放量為負”的公司，并于2021年7月實施新的采購程序，以激勵供應商減少碳排放。
The focus on sustainability has intensifiedin recent years with large cloud platforms making aggressive commitments toclimate action. In January Microsoft said it will become “carbon negative” by2030, and implement new procurement procedures in July 2021 to incentivizesuppliers to reduce their carbon emissions.
與此同時，亞馬遜云科技公司承諾，到2025年將使用100％可再生能源，這一行為比2030年時間表更早，以實現亞馬遜更廣泛的基礎設施運營。如果不加快購買可再生能源來支持亞馬遜云服務，該目標就無法實現。
Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services hascommitted to use 100% renewable energy by 2025, ahead of the 2030 timeline forAmazon’s broader operations. That goal cannot be met without a majoracceleration of renewable energy purchases to support Amazon Web Services.
這些公告對數據中心行業具有重大影響。隨著最大的云建設者加深對綠色能源的承諾，整個數據中心供應鏈必須以新的方式擁抱可持續發展。超大規模客戶群體推動了數據中心提供商在全球范圍內強勁的增長，使得他們每年租賃出數百兆瓦的空間。
These announcements have huge implicationsfor the data center industry. As the largest cloud builders deepen theircommitments to green energy, the entire data center supply chain must embracesustainability in new ways. Hyperscale customers have driven much of the growthfor data center providers with a global footprint, leasing hundreds ofmegawatts of space on an annual basis.
超大型企業是推動綠色數據中心發展的領導者，但他們并不孤單。治理與問責研究所指出，標準普爾500指數（S&P 500 Index）中有86％的公司在2018年發布了可持續發展報告，高于2011年的20％。
The hyperscale players are leaders in thedrive for greener data centers, but they are not alone. Eighty six percent ofthe companies in the S&P 500 Index published a sustainability report in2018, up from only 20% in 2011, notes the Governance and AccountabilityInstitute.
451 Research的最新調查發現，近三分之一的多租戶數據中心（MTDC）代表表示，他們的所有客戶都希望對效率和可持續性做出具有合同約束力的承諾；而另外44％的代表則表示這是大多數客戶的訴求，并不是全部。
A recent survey from 451 Research foundthat almost a third of multi-tenant data center (MTDC) representatives said alltheir customers want contractually binding commitments to efficiency andsustainability, while another 44% said it is true for most of their customers.
451提到：“大型企業和IT服務提供商（尤其是大型云公司）通常對基礎設施效率有嚴格的要求，因為它們會篩選并放到各自的可持續性報告中。簡而言之：他們無法使用沒有優先考慮高效和可持續性標準的MTDC提供商。”
“Major enterprises and IT service providers(particularly larger cloud firms) typically have stringent infrastructureefficiency demands because it filters through to their own respectivesustainability reports,” 451 said. “Simply put: they cannot afford to use MTDCproviders that do not prioritize high efficiency and sustainability standards.”
數據中心行業可持續發展之旅
數據中心行業的綠色創新經歷了兩個主要階段。
There have been two major phases of greeninnovation in the data center industry.
第一階段，大約為2007年至2014年，最大的數據中心運營商大大提高了其IT設備和數據中心設施的效率。對于像Google，Facebook和亞馬遜云科技這樣的公司，意味著從為服務器供電的芯片到電力基礎設施和冷卻系統的各個運營方面都在進行創新。這種對效率的不懈關注使得他們極大地節省了電力，從而削減了這些互聯網業務的碳排放影響。這些在效率方面的努力帶來了更綠色的底線和更環保的數據中心。
In the first phase, from roughly 2007-2014,the largest data center operators dramatically improved the efficiency of theirIT equipment and data center facilities. For companies like Google, Facebookand Amazon Web Services, this meant innovating in every aspect of operations,from the chips powering servers to the power infrastructure and coolingsystems. This relentless focus on efficiency yielded huge savings inelectricity, slashing the carbon impact of these Internet businesses. Theefficiency efforts brought a greener bottom line as well as greener datacenters.
通過在數字業務的供應鏈上施行可持續發展的實踐，數據中心行業將成為采取氣候行動的更強大力量。
By imposing sustainable practices upon thesupply chain for digital business, the data center industry will be an evenmore potent force for climate action.
在該行業可持續發展旅程的第二階段，大型數據中心運營商將重點放在采購可再生能源上，來為其運營提供動力，而不是使用基于煤炭的能源。其他云服務商和數據中心房地產投資信托基金已采用Google對可再生能源的電力購買協議（PPA）。因此，領先的技術公司現在是可再生能源的最大用戶，也是太陽能和風力發電能源市場上最活躍的買家。
In the second phase of the industry’ssustainability journey, large data center operators have focused on procuringrenewable energy to power their operations instead of electricity sources basedon coal. Google’s use of power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewable energyhas been adopted by other cloud providers and data center REITs. As a result,leading technology companies are now the largest users of renewable energy, andthe most active buyers in energy markets for solar and wind power generation.
可再生能源采購最初集中在超大型企業，但多租戶數據中心服務提供商最近開始與非營利組織合作，開發最佳實踐，使托管客戶可以要求其數據中心提供商給予可再生能源直通抵扣券。
Renewable purchasing was initiallyconcentrated at hyperscale players, but multi-tenant data center serviceproviders have recently begun working with nonprofits to develop best practicesfor allowing colocation customers to claim pass-through credits for therenewable energy arranged by their data center provider.
由于最大的參與者要求其供應商記錄其采購流程并通過可持續性視角對其進行審核，這為數據中心行業的綠色之旅的下一階段奠定了基礎-即帶來整個供應鏈的全面轉變。
This has laid the groundwork for the nextphase of the data center industry’s green journey—a wholesale shift of theentire supply chain, as the largest players require their suppliers to documenttheir procurement processes and vet them through a sustainability lens.
通過在數字業務的供應鏈上施加可持續發展的實踐，數據中心行業將成為采取氣候行動的更強大力量。為了實現其最大的影響，該行業需要贏得企業客戶的信任，否則這些客戶會繼續將 IT 運營托管在包括許多含大量碳足跡舊設施的本地數據中心。
By imposing sustainable practices upon thesupply chain for digital business, the data center industry will be an evenmore potent force for climate action. To realize its greatest impact, theindustry will need to win the confidence of enterprise customers that continueto house IT operations in on-premises data centers, including many olderfacilities with an outsized carbon footprint.
由于數據中心極大地提高了其能源效率，在云計算和在線服務爆炸性增長的時期內，工業用電量略有增加。
Data centers have dramatically improvedtheir energy efficiency, resulting in a small increase in industry electricityuse during a period of explosive growth for cloud computing and onlineservices.
隨著企業IT用戶加倍關注可持續性發展，他們將尋求合適的數據中心服務提供商，這些提供商可以充當合作伙伴，以減少碳排放，履行企業氣候承諾并打造綠色地球。
As enterprise IT users redouble their focuson sustainability, they will be seeking data center service providers who canserve as partners as they slash carbon impact, deliver on corporate climatecommitments, and build a greener planet.
在接下來的幾周中，請繼續關注本報告系列，報告會包含諸如節水和管理、消除柴油發電機、熱回收等相關的主題，并與來自可持續數據中心未來的主要聲音進行對話。
Follow this report series over the comingweeks as explore topics like water conservation and management, eliminatingdiesel generators, heat recycling and more, as well as share a conversationwith leading voices on the future of sustainable data centers.
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