Google says it will be 100 percent carbon neutral in 2017. In a Dec. 6 New York Times article by Quentin Hardy, the search and cloud computing giant claims that its worldwide operations would be powered by all renewable energy, wind turbine and solar. Microsoft says it has been “carbon neutral” since 2014. Amazon Web Services says it plans on 50 percent clean energy sourcing in the coming year.

DCD>Enterprise, March 14-15, New York City, will open with a keynote on Google’s clean power commitment from Joe Kava, SVP, technical infrastructure. In speaking to the NYT, Kava said “We are the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the world. It’s good for the economy, good for business and good for our shareholders.”

Over 1,500 senior IT, data center and cloud infrastructure professional strategy and operations innovators from many of the largest data center-owning enterprises in the world will gather in Manhattan at the landmark Marriott Marquis Times Square.

To further discuss how clean energy can be more quickly adopted by the data center and cloud infrastructure sector, Kava will join a panel made up of Microsoft’s GM, data center services, Christian Belady, Uber Compute’s head Dean Nelson, and fuel-cell-maker Bloom Energy’s head of mission critical systems, Peter Gross.

The Infrastructure Masons

All four are advisory members of a new group founded by Uber’s Nelson, the Infrastructure Masons. All are people who have led the design, build and operation of some of the largest digital infrastructure systems and facilities in the world. “One purpose of the Masons,” says Nelson, “is to encourage professionals to be progressive in tackling some of the big problems inherent in the growth of new-economy infrastructure, and to be equally progressive in harnessing the power of this sector in solving wider problems. This panel is an ideal platform to encourage our peers to take things like this on.”

“The NY Times article points out that the commercial/industrial sector of the US economy now consumes about 25% of total power,” says DCD>Enterprise chair, Bruce Taylor. “Of that, approximately 2% of the mix is attributable to the data center industry. As the global economy continues its digital transformation, it only makes sense that the percentage consumed by digital infrastructure will grow in the zettabyte era. Why not restrict carbon emission tonnage as much as possible by design?”

Delegate Registration

Designed specifically for IT decision-makers from organizations that run data center-scale infrastructure, delegate registration is limited to 1,500 technology business management and professionals this year. Pre-registration is expected to be heavily over-subscribed; we urge qualified end-users to apply for complimentary, no-fee passes as soon as they have cleared their calendars.

Click here to apply for early-bird complimentary registration; it runs out on January 31.