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So we founded Aligned Energy, an infrastructure technology company with a mission to make critical infrastructure smart enough to continuously improve its economic performance and environmental impact, delivering a tremendous business advantage while helping secure the health of the planet.From the ground up, we designed an adaptive data centre that reduces energy and water consumption, saves money, and enables organizations to be agile, responsive, and scalable – to move as fast as they need to grab hold of the opportunities the Digital Age presents. The following are just a few examples of Aligned Energy’s data centre innovation:„„Our infrastructure optimization software gathers millions of data points in real time and turns that data into actionable insights, allowing operators to optimize the performance (including efficiency) of data centre infrastructure. „„Our award-winning cooling system actually removes heat at its source, which allows us to support servers running much higher densities (i.e. generating more heat) and just as efficiently support servers running at very low densities – giving customers more flexibility.„„Our vertically integrated supply chain allows us and our customers to deploy just the infrastructure we need, when we need it, instead of having to build it out years ahead of demand – saving money.„„Together, intelligent infrastructure (combination of hardware and software) and a vertically integrated supply chain allows us and our customers to increase utilization – make fuller use of existing data center space and power – which is a huge driver of cost savings.„„Unlike traditional cooling systems, ours ramps up and down based on the amount of heat generated by the servers, which means we can support dynamic IT loads – one of the defining features of traffic in the Digital Age. „„The design of our patented cooling system also allows us to leverage free cooling at any load in any climate – something most data centres cannot do – which helps reduce our energy consumption by up to 80 per cent and our water consumption by up to 85 per cent.As the foundation of the Digital Age, data centre innovations like these will be essential to ensuring that the Digital Age really does make life better for all the world’s people – and does it sustainably. ■ABOUT THE AUTHORWith over 25 years of experience building and operating data centres, Jakob Carnemark’s vision for solving the mission critical industry’s biggest issues is being carried out as Founder and CEO of Aligned Energy. By reducing the energy, water, and space needed to operate, Aligned Energy’s technology innovations offer organizations a competitive advantage by improving reliability and their bottom line, while helping secure the health of the planet. Learn more and get in touch via alignedenergy.comTop: Figure 1: Resources Consumed by Data Centres Bottom: Aligned Energy Data Centre Facility in Plano, TexasINNOVATION TECHNOLOGY 047