Environmental awareness: reducing the energy consumption of CERN’s IT infrastructure

Energy consumption related to data processing is one of the main environmental impacts of CERN’s IT infrastructure and activities. Around 75% of the energy used in data centre activities at CERN is for data processing, while the remaining 25% is dedicated to data storage.

As shown in this infographic, three main actors could contribute to reducing energy consumption in data processing, thereby reducing CERN’s environmental impact: industry, CERN as an organisation, and the CERN community.  

Read more on how CERN is working to reduce the environmental impact of its IT infrastructure here.

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This infographic is part of the series “CERN’s Year of Environmental Awareness”.