‘Sustainability in data centres is a minimal requirement for clients’

India’s data centre boom is gathering momentum as more companies are pumping in money and looking to set up their own centres in the region. In such a backdrop, sustainability measures have become part of boardroom discussion in a big way according to Thiru Prakassh, APAC Head at OVHcloud. More reports are flagging concerns about water and energy crisis amid rising data centre projects. To tackle this, Prakassh says companies will have to rehaul their conventional cooling systems to more sustainable alternatives, stressing the need for not just GPU-ready data centres but smart data centres