Empowering Sustainable Data Center Design with Microsoft’s Open Source Cloud LCA Tool

As the data center industry increasingly focuses on sustainability, understanding the environmental trade-offs of siting, design, and operational decisions is more important than ever. In this session, we will explore the Cloud LCA Tool, an open-source life cycle assessment platform published by Microsoft and WSP in Nature. This tool enables stakeholders to evaluate both embodied and operational carbon impacts as well as water consumption across diverse infrastructure configurations. 

We will showcase the Cloud LCA Tool's capability to model and compare sustainability outcomes for the OCP community. During the presentation, we will demonstrate how the LCA tool can be used to support decision making related to datacenter development and operations by evaluating four scenarios.

Speaker: Teresa Nick, Microsoft

Room: Annex (04-055) 101X