Jenny Gerson is the Senior Director of Sustainability at DataBank, a colocation data center developer and operator in 25+ markets across the US and UK. At DataBank, she develops and leads the company's strategy across environment, social, and governance topics, including a scope 1 and 2 net zero emissions goal by 2030.
Prior to joining DataBank, she was the Director of Sustainability for Maxar Technologies, a global space infrastructure and earth intelligence company. Previously, Jenny led energy and environmental management, corporate sustainability, and M&A integrations at Zayo Group, a global telecom company.
Jenny has 20+ years of experience in sustainability and 10+ years of experience in the data center industry. Beyond corporate sustainability, Jenny's background includes cleantech market research, environmental permitting for energy development, and ecological studies for research institutions. Jenny holds a BA in Evolutionary and Ecological Biology and an MBA from the University of Colorado.
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An overview of net zero emissions and the strategies enterprise, colocation, and cloud data centers can
implement to get close to net zero emissions.
Demand is escalating for data centers to provide cooling solutions that keep pace with emerging technologies. These workloads require high-density server racks that call for liquid cooling to rack doors and chips—and in some cases, complete server immersion—to make sure they don’t overheat.
(Originally published in Data Center Frontier magazine) By: Jenny Gerson, senior director of sustainability, DataBank There’s a lot of confusion about renewable energy use in the data center, what electricity…
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