Open Compute Project’s (OCP) Sustainability Project was established in ~2020 as Datacenter Sustainability gained more and more importance. It has since spawned multiple workstreams working on different aspects of Sustainability in devices and are essential to enabling circular economy in Datacenter. Sustainable design encompasses a multitude of categories ranging from reduced power usage, power telemetry, carbon efficiency metrics, elongating lifespan of competitive use or telemetry for carbon metrics. This session will be delving into 3 broad but essential categories of work, which OCP has started exploring – Power Profile & Sustainability Metrics, Standardizing LCA methodology & Carbon Transparency and Tradeoffs to enable Circular Reuse.
All these 3 areas of work especially apply to Storage in Datacenters. In context of these 3 areas of work, we will discuss the crucial hurdles in enabling transparency of carbon-impact and implementing a circular economy. This is especially significant for Storage Media as they have particular concerns with circular reuse due to Security and TCO considerations . We will discuss the goals of each of these 3 categories of work and how they may help Design for Sustainability for Storage, by resolving some of the barriers faced.
