Energy Green Data Centers for Sustainability

Humankind is not living sustainably, and action must be taken, and taken soon, to reverse this negative trend and reconcile human use of the planet’s resources with the ability of the Earth to supply them. A successful sustainability transition, moreover, will demand critical advances in basic knowledge, in humankind’s social and technological capacity to utilize it, and in the political will to turn that knowledge and know how into action (NRC, 2002). The process goes beyond individual stakeholders and themes – populations, economy, water, food, energy, and climate – to identification of common threads and drivers of systemic change (NRC, 2002). Sustainability science seeks real world solutions to sustainability issues and aims to break down artificial and outdated disciplinary gaps between the natural and social sciences through the creation of new knowledge and its practical application to technology transfer and decision making (Clark & Dickson, 2003; Palmer et al. 2005; Weinstein et al. 2007).