Alibaba Cloud is poised to meet its carbon reduction targets as it upgrades server-storing data centres around the world, according to a scientist on the project.
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, aims to have its global data centres running entirely on clean energy by 2030.
“Eco-friendly data centres are critical to Alibaba’s sustainable operations,” says Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure’s Internet Data Centre Division general manager Shanyuan Gao.
“In our Hangzhou data centre, server clusters are submerged in specialised liquid coolant, which quickly chills the IT hardware,” Gao explained.
The cloud computing division employs green technologies in these facilities, of which liquid cooling and renewable electricity storage make the biggest difference in reducing carbon emissions.
Alibaba Cloud’s Zhangbei data centre employs the…