Source: Featured Blogs - Forrester
As data centers and digital infrastructure now account for measurable portions of global emissions, companies are treating sustainability as a technical constraint rather than a compliance checkbox—forcing architects to make hard tradeoffs between performance, scale, and power consumption. Vendors who can't prove their environmental claims with auditable standards are losing competitive ground to those embedding efficiency into chip design, cooling systems, and workload placement. Regulators in the EU and US are tightening carbon disclosure rules, making bad infrastructure decisions a future balance sheet liability.