Every text, email and social media post. Every digital photo, web search and credit card transaction. Every online purchase. Every streaming show. Nearly everything in our lives involves data coming in and out of data centers, with incredibly huge electricity demands.
Ayșe Coskun, ECE, SE, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Director, Center for Information and Systems Engineering, was a guest on the PBS program Energy Switch to discuss the voluminous energy needs of data centers and ways to mitigate their climatic impact.