What is GreenDIGIT
Lowering the environmental impact of digital services and technologies has to become a priority for both the operation of existing digital services and the design of future digital infrastructures. Energy consumption and carbon footprint are the two most talked about environmental impacts, and indeed, digital infrastructures today contribute 3 to 4% of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world, with a growth of 8% per year. In particular, the part of the networking infrastructure alone is responsible for 2 to 14% of digital impacts, mainly due to their electricity consumption.
The GreenDIGIT project will approach the problem of reducing the environmental impact of Research Infrastructures (RIs) from the generic conceptual point of view by addressing all major factors that define and influence the RI environmental and climate impact.
Who we are
GreenDIGIT was initiated by 4 Digital Infrastructures to address vital needs of the future ESFRI Research Infrastructures and other digital service providers for science in lowering energy consumption and environmental impact:
- EGI: Open Ecosystem for Research and Innovation and Advanced Computing Services for Research.
- SoBigData: distributed, Pan-European, multi-disciplinary research infrastructure aimed at social mining and Big Data to understand the complexity of our interconnected society.
- SLICES: A distributed Research Infrastructure to support large-scale experimental research on Digital Technologies.
- EBRAINS: A digital research infrastructure for brain science and brain-inspired technology.
