Sustainable Digital Infrastructure

Shape a digital infrastructure market that balances societal needs, environmental sustainability, and economic growth, while fostering accountability and openness.

Duration

2025–2030

Annual budget

50.000 EUR

Status

Running

A critical gap in the digital sector

The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure program aims to transform the digital infrastructure landscape through value-driven principles. The program’s mission addresses a critical gap in the digital sector. Without infrastructure that is sustainable, delivers local impact and is transparent about it’s environmental costs, we can neither create a sustainable digital economy nor accelerate digitalization. If we don’t close this gap, accelerating our digital transformation, will create lasting negative impacts on local communities and the environment. Through this program, we catalyze change within the data center and IT infrastructure market, by enabling better purchasing choices, create policies that operationalize the values and by supporting providers to implement them in their business practices.

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Definitions

Providers

Providers

Providers

Purchasers

Purchasers

Purchasers

The Market

The Market

The Market

A positive digital future requires digital infrastructure that operationalizes values, not ideals.

A positive digital future requires digital infrastructure that operationalizes values, not ideals.

A positive digital future requires digital infrastructure that operationalizes values, not ideals.

Our approach

We want to set a clear direction for a values-driven digital infrastructure, as well as defining & amplifying the development of next-generation providers who operationalize the core values:

Awareness

Awareness

Awareness

Policy

Policy

Policy

Implementation

Implementation

Implementation

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Values to operationalize in digital infrastructure:

Sustainability

Sustainability

Sustainability

Transparency

Transparency

Transparency

Openness

Openness

Openness

Public Accountability

Public Accountability

Public Accountability

Positive Local Impact

Positive Local Impact

Positive Local Impact

Defining the next generation of digital infrastructure providers

A next-generation provider is an organization that goes beyond traditional service delivery by operationalizing these three core values in their business practices:

Transparency

Transparency

Transparency

Sustainability

Sustainability

Sustainability

Local Impact

Local Impact

Local Impact

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Latest updates on Sustainable Digital Infrastructure

In the news

Latest updates on Sustainable Digital Infrastructure

In the news

Latest updates on Sustainable Digital Infrastructure

Press Release

SDIA Roadmap featured in OECD report on measuring the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Compute and Applications

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Press Release

SDIA Roadmap featured in OECD report on measuring the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Compute and Applications

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Press Release

Date announced: SDIA: Operationalizing Values in Dutch Digital Infrastructure - Part 2 scheduled for 2025-02-18T13:45:00.000+01:00 → 2025-02-18T18:00:00.000+01:00

SDIA's event on operationalizing values in Dutch digital infrastructure is scheduled for February 18, 2025, from 1:45 PM to 6:00 PM (GMT+1).

Press Release

Date announced: SDIA: Operationalizing Values in Dutch Digital Infrastructure - Part 2 scheduled for 2025-02-18T13:45:00.000+01:00 → 2025-02-18T18:00:00.000+01:00

SDIA's event on operationalizing values in Dutch digital infrastructure is scheduled for February 18, 2025, from 1:45 PM to 6:00 PM (GMT+1).

Press Release

Second Press Release of University of Stuttgart on Funding Announcement for NADIKI

Das KI-Projekt NADIKI an der Universität Stuttgart zielt darauf ab, den Ressourcenverbrauch und CO2-Ausstoß von KI-Anwendungen transparent zu machen, um eine nachhaltige Nutzung zu fördern. Es bietet Schnittstellen und Werkzeuge für eine faktenbasierte Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse und unterstützt ökologische Anforderungen an KI. Das Projekt ist Teil der Initiative „Künstliche Intelligenz für Umwelt und Klima“ und erhält Fördermittel in Höhe von 5,5 Millionen Euro.

Press Release

Second Press Release of University of Stuttgart on Funding Announcement for NADIKI

Das KI-Projekt NADIKI an der Universität Stuttgart zielt darauf ab, den Ressourcenverbrauch und CO2-Ausstoß von KI-Anwendungen transparent zu machen, um eine nachhaltige Nutzung zu fördern. Es bietet Schnittstellen und Werkzeuge für eine faktenbasierte Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse und unterstützt ökologische Anforderungen an KI. Das Projekt ist Teil der Initiative „Künstliche Intelligenz für Umwelt und Klima“ und erhält Fördermittel in Höhe von 5,5 Millionen Euro.

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