Data Centre Sustainability
データセンターの持続可能性 (AI 翻訳)
Pradip Ninan Thomas
🤖 gxceed AI 要約
日本語
データセンターの持続可能性（グリーン化）に伴う課題を分析。特に、重要な鉱物へのアクセス、水と電力の問題、そしてアマゾンのカーボンゼロ宣言と実態の乖離を指摘。フィンランドのハミナデータセンターを事例に、グリーン化が地域社会にエネルギー不足をもたらす逆説的結果を明らかにする。
English
This chapter examines sustainability challenges in data centers, focusing on critical minerals, water, and power access. It highlights the gap between Amazon's green pledges and actual practices, and uses the Hamina data centre in Finland to show how greening can paradoxically cause energy deficits for local communities when data centers monopolize renewables.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本でもデータセンターの電力消費増大が課題。グリーン化の名の下に地域の再生可能エネルギーが独占されるリスクは、日本各地のデータセンター立地計画でも考慮すべき点。SSBJやTCFDの観点からは、データセンター事業者のサステナビリティ報告における実質的な影響開示の重要性を示唆。
In the global GX context
For global readers, this paper offers a critical perspective on data centre greening, questioning the net benefits of renewable procurement by large tech firms. It is relevant to the ongoing debate about the sustainability of digital infrastructure, echoing concerns in CSRD and ISSB framework disclosures about the social and environmental impacts of energy use.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Highlights the paradoxical effects of corporate green pledges on local communities, a cautionary tale for sustainability research.
🏢実務担当者:Data centre operators should assess the local energy and resource impacts of their renewable procurement strategies to avoid reputational risk.
🏛政策担当者:Regulators need to consider the unintended consequences of renewable energy mandates on local energy access and equity.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Abstract Data centre sustainability and greening are among the most critical issues facing the data centre industry. This chapter highlights issues related to access to critical minerals in contexts such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where extractivist mining has taken a toll on local people. The chapter’s key focus, however, is on local issues, especially access to water and power. While data centres have made commitments to greening, the example of Amazon’s green pledge to attain carbon zero is used to foreground the gaps between the principles and pledges on the one hand, and what is really happening on the other. It uses the example of the data centre, Hamina, in Finland to highlight the costs of greening to local communities. When large data centres use the public values of greening to buy all renewables and even purchase energy in advance of production, local communities and businesses face energy deficits. In this sense, greening and the discourse of renewables can have paradoxical outcomes.
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- openalex https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197909331.003.0004first seen 2026-07-13 05:05:17
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