Understanding the maturity of EU code of conduct on data centres: A Mauritian case study explained

Abstract

Information Technology (IT) significantly impacts the environment throughout its life cycle. Most organisations and data centres in Mauritius have not paid enough attention to this until recently. Given the relative energy and materials inefficiency of most IT infrastructures today, many green IT initiatives can be easily tackled at no incremental cost. The EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (EUCOC) is one of such initiatives developed in response to increasing energy consumption in data centres and the need to reduce the related environmental, economic and energy supply security impacts. Despite the importance of performance metrics, there is relatively little activity on applying metrics in the Mauritian data centers. In this paper, the EUCOC best practices were applied and analysed in one of the Mauritian data centre and compared with a similar one in the UK. Additionally, this paper also recommends on useful metrics for data centres that are at the early stage of the “Greening process”.