Today's world is highly reliant on data centers and fossil fuels and that dependence is rising by the day.

Given energy's necessity in this CRE sector – not to mention other natural resources such as water – and given the world's focus on sustainability – it's a wonder if the two will be around much longer.

Of course, they will.

Public Utility Companies Can't Meet Demand

Thomas Galli, partner at Duane Morris, tells GlobeSt.com that while sustainability is an increasingly important issue among developers, owners, operators, tenants and other participants in the data center sector, no scalable practical solutions have been identified notwithstanding strong commitments.

Galli said that in recent years, sustainability has been addressed with advances in technology to improve efficiencies in the use of power in data centers.

"However, those improved efficiencies have been relatively modest when considered in light of the massive increase in the demand for power to serve the industry – with no end in sight for that increasing demand," Galli said.[...]

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