Sustainable Computing: Challenges and Opportunities for Enterprises

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges and opportunities of sustainable computing for enterprises with Intel's Stephanie Schmidt.

This episode is sponsored by Intel® Intel® just launched its 4th Generation Xeon® Scalable processor, which is geared towards its Enterprise customer base. To learn more about how Intel solves sustainability challenges, I had a conversation with Stephanie Schmidt, who is the Senior Director, Data Center Product Sustainability with Intel. The key takeaways of the conversation are as follows: • Sustainability is a key issue: With the increasing demand for compute, data center energy consumption, waste, and water use are also growing, making sustainability a critical consideration for enterprises. Inefficient infrastructure can emit increasing amounts of carbon, especially as compute demand increases, creating a big challenge for enterprises. • Sustainability can drive business growth: Sustainability can be a differentiator for businesses and lead to new monetization opportunities. It reduces costs, drives value, and is a huge driver for innovation, making it a selling point for sustainable products and solutions. • Energy efficiency is driving tech innovation: Sustainability is driving tech innovation and new solutions. For example, AI-based telemetry and immersion cooling can…

People in this episode

Host: Avrohom

Guest: Stephanie Schmidt

Topics covered

• sustainability
• data centers
• energy efficiency
• business growth
• technology innovation

Keywords

• Intel
• Xeon
• scalable processor
• AI-based telemetry
• immersion cooling

Sponsors

Intel

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Xeon® Scalable, Enterprise, Xeon, 4th Generation Xeon Scalable processor

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