System-of-Systems Approach to Reduce Environmental Emissions of Information Communication Technologies’ Data Centers

The environmental crisis is a thread worldwide. To mitigate this crisis, decision-makers call for actions to develop our society in a more sustainable way. This is referred to as sustainable transition. The sustainable transition aims to, among others, reduce the production of Green House Gasses (GHG) emissions. Industrial organizations are responsible of large GHG emissions’ production. Information Communication Technologies (ICT) industry may support the sustainable transition. At the same time the ICT industry is responsible of GHG emissions. Interacting hardware and software systems are the main constituents of the ICT’s System-of-Systems (SoS). Recently, studies observed a rise in data-centers demand. In turn, this reflects on an increase of energy consumption and GHG emissions production. There is the need to reduce the energy consumption and environmental impact of data center without compromising their effectiveness. This work showcases the practices of an industrial organization dealing with ICT’s SoS and how to improve the energy practices related to data centers.