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The Sustainable Data Centers Roadmap

November 19, 2025

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm est

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In this Roadmap presentation, coauthors examine data centers’ energy use, strategies for improving data centers’ energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions from data centers, strategies for using data centers to accelerate deployment of low-carbon power, data centers’ water use and government data center policies around the world, as well as related topics. The Roadmap offers specific, actionable recommendations in each chapter. Our goal is to provide a useful resource for experts and non-experts alike.

Coauthors presenting:

  • David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at CGEP and Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration, Chair, ICEF Roadmap Project
  • Alexis Abramson, Dean of the Columbia Climate School and a Professor of Climate
  • Julio Friedmann, Chief Scientist at Carbon Direct.
  • Colin McCormick, Chief Innovation Officer for Carbon Direct
  • Eric Masanet, Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Sustainability Science for Emerging Technologies, UC Santa Barbara

For more information about the event, please contact [email protected].

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