Data centres are estimated to consume approximately 1% of global electricity use and contribute to 0.3% of all global CO2 emissions. Climate-neutral data centres have therefore become an important challenge. iDT4GDC aims to develop Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twin technologies into a cloud AI platform to digitalise, optimise and automate data centre operations for sustainability purposes. iDT4GDC will guide data centre operations and management towards a sustainable future along the five pillars of power, carbon, water, circular economy and governance.

Innova Integra coordinates the iDT4GDC ITEA project and develops the backend and digital twin infrastructure. Our research focuses on predicting green energy availability on the grid, local production capacity as well as on optimal scheduling of compute workloads to satisfy green energy usage, timeliness and costs requirements for compute jobs across time and multiple data centre locations. An agent-driven solution for dynamic auctions is also being developed.

Find out more about iDT4GDC on our website at https://www.idt4gdc.com/