Environmental sustainability of data centres: A need for a multi-impact and life cycle approach

Alexis Laurent; Mirko Dal Maso; Xiao Wang; Xianli Zhu; Gabriela Prata Dias

Environmental sustainability of data centres: A need for a multi-impact and life cycle approach

Alexis Laurent, Mirko Dal Maso, Xiao Wang, Xianli Zhu, Gabriela Prata Dias

Department of Technology, Management and Economics

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This issue brief uses examples to showcase the substantial environmental impacts of data centres stemming from other life cycle stages than their operations and calls for the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to assess and address such impacts.

Original language	English

Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2020

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