To optimise sustainable and resilient interconnection ensure that infrastructure aligns to, and delivers on, company aims.​

Understand your organisation’s goals before developing your infrastructure plan​ and analyse its mission, vision and values to determine the strategy and infrastructure needed​. Create a ‘Basis of Design’ (BOD) for your organisation.

Validate​ your BOD by measuring it’s performance. Continuously revalidate, monitor and adjust the design as needed​. Review infrastructure layers and how they complement or conflict with one another (e.g., MEP, IT hardware, software, processes).

In this presentation, Dave Wildman Global Head of Facilities, Sustainability Ops & MEP Infrastructure at Bloomberg imparts his expertise on how to align infrastructure to company aims, meet sustainability commitments through a data centre lens, build diversity and talent and gain senior stakeholder support for technical projects.

Key Takeaways:

• Sustainability and efficiency are becoming a more important boardroom conversation. It’s not just the right thing to do but also cost efficient.
• Corporate desire to go to net-zero is strong. To take these decisions down to the data centre front line, while still ensuring resiliency needs requires maximising solar and wind energy to power DCs and maximise data centre efficiency,
• Reduce waste and optimise resources by implementing an efficient design.​ Utilise modular and scalable solutions to meet changing demands, integrate energy storage to maximise energy efficiency
• Sustainable practices: Develop policies and procedures to promote sustainability and reduce waste. Educate employees on the importance of sustainability, sustainable practices, and their impact on the environment.