Verifiable Sustainability in Data Centers

TL;DR

This paper discusses the critical security challenges in verifying sustainability data in data centers, emphasizing the need for secure, privacy-preserving solutions to ensure trustworthy sustainability reporting.

Contribution

It identifies key security vulnerabilities in current sustainability data collection methods and proposes research directions for developing secure verification techniques.

Findings

Current methods are vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Security and privacy issues hinder trustworthy sustainability data.

Research directions are outlined for secure verification solutions.

Abstract

Data centers have significant energy needs, both embodied and operational, affecting sustainability adversely. The current techniques and tools for collecting, aggregating, and reporting verifiable sustainability data are vulnerable to cyberattacks and misuse, requiring new security and privacy-preserving solutions. This paper outlines security challenges and research directions for addressing these pressing requirements.