As Cloud industry gears up towards attacking Climate Change – identifying the sources of carbon and other associated impacts is a needed first step to device a plan of action to further sustainability improvements. The cloud storage market is expected to exceed $390B by 2028; hence a key area of focus to reduce Data Center Climate Impact. As a leading force in the cloud solution sector, we recognize the environmental implications.

The Global Storage market is growing at a CAGR of 17.8% (Ref: Fortune Business Insights). While current storage technologies are still satisfying the current capacity needs, the explosive growth in the digitization of information has warranted research and analysis into new futuristic media, such as molecular/DNA storage, that can scale to large capacity with much lower carbon impact.

Open Compute Project’s (OCP) Sustainability Project was established in ~2020 as Datacenter Sustainability gained more and more importance. It has since spawned multiple workstreams working on different aspects of Sustainability in devices and are essential to enabling circular economy in Datacenter. Sustainable design encompasses a multitude of categories ranging from reduced power usage, power telemetry, carbon efficiency metrics, elongating lifespan of competitive use or telemetry for carbon metrics.