The Gijón City Council selected T-Systems to help it take the first steps toward becoming a smart city. By implementing smart lighting management and using IoT, Gijón was able to achieve energy savings and cost reductions. In doing so, Gijón and T-Systems are creating the basis for further innovations in the future.
We ought not to miss the opportunity to create an ecologically beneficial upswing with a new start as we emerge from the crisis. Thinking long-term means thinking ecologically: welcome to the new green normal.
Without the cloud, neither digitalization nor the use of innovative technologies for greater sustainability would be possible. But as global data traffic grows, so does the demand for energy. Despite this, green data centers are anything but a pipe dream: by using electricity from renewable sources, operators drastically reduce their carbon footprint. Take Deutsche Telekom in Magdeburg and Biere, for example: the data centers there operate exclusively on renewable energy and consume 30 percent less power than comparable facilities.
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