AI IN SUSTAINABILITY
But now, their capacity is so much more I’ m finding I have to fight less and they can do so much more – and they can get excited! There’ s a few that really want to work on sustainability and this is enabling them to spend their time in the areas that they’ re most passionate about.
Q. HOW IS DELL LEADING THE WAY IN THE MORE UNSEEN AREAS SUCH AS COOLING, POWER DISTRIBUTION AND SERVER RACKS?
» I’ ve been talking about sustainability and data centres forever, but I feel like the whole world has caught up. They’ re interested in this topic as well. Dell focuses on how to make sure data centres can run as efficiently as possible. Hardwarewise, a lot of what uses most of the energy inside a data centre is for cooling. Just like if you have a laptop when you tell it to do too many things, you think too hard, it gets kind of hot on your lap. Servers also get very hot and we have to either use fans or liquid cooling or even sometimes more advanced immersion cooling, which is where you dunk the server into a mineral oil tank to help remove the heat. Just all different ways to remove the heat.
In terms of software too, you’ d be surprised how much software can help within a data centre. There’ s lots of servers that are sometimes running extra things that they don’ t need to be or they don’ t realise are still running. Creating those software solutions to make sure we’ re not wasting any energy is going to help us use the power that we have today more efficiently instead of needing to add more power to the grid.
120 June 2026