Certification tackles growing sustainability issues of data centers

The environmental impact of data usage is growing fast. Carbon dioxide emissions from data centers are now equal to those of the global air travel. To help tackle the problem, the sustainability certification TCO Certified will be expanded to include network equipment, data storage products and servers.As more of us use mobile devices, streaming services and cloud-based solutions, the number of energy-guzzling data centers is growing rapidly. If this trend is not reversed, data centers may use as much as 13% of global electricity in 2030, compared to 1% in 2010. As with other IT products,