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Front-line Research

Sustainability is a constantly evolving area. As new information and technologies become available, best practices evolve. We’re committed to using our expertise, gained from operating at the front line of these developments, to push the global conversation regarding the best implementation of sustainable IT practices.

We’re always involved in a range of research and advocacy projects; the examples of our work below capture some of the insights we’ve picked up along the way so far.

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The Role of Circular Economy in Server Refresh Strategies

Addressing energy efficiency at the data center mechanical and electrical infrastructure level is starting to suffer from the law of diminishing returns. The study measures and analyzes the use phase energy consumption of remanufactured servers vs new servers with various hardware configurations.

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Is Hot IT a False Economy? An Analysis of Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency as Temperatures Rise

As demand for digital services grows, there is need to improve efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of datacenters. The largest energy consumer in any data center is the IT, followed by the systems dedicated to cooling.

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Circul8: Supporting Circularity Decision Making with a Component-based Real-Time Monitoring Tool for IT Asset Management

Developed through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between the University of Hull and Techbuyer UK Ltd, Circul8 continuously collects non-intrusive telemetry data from core hardware components, including CPU, memory, storage, and battery usage. The platform features a lightweight agent for data collection.

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Maximising Server IT Energy Efficiency throughoptimal Hardware and Software configuration

What is the impact of memory configuration and BIOS power profile on the energy efficiency of a Data Centre server? This paper highlights some easy “wins” for achieving these goals, as well as some more specialized improvements that can be made through server profile customization.

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Discussion of the triple bottom line benefits of server refurbishment

This paper outlines the benefits of this on the triple bottom line of social, environmental and cost impacts. It also identifies the best use cases for refurbished components and remanufactured machines.

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Myths of the Circular Economy

The myth that refurbished technologies cannot perform as well as their new counterparts is a wide-spread misbelief. Techbuyer has been tackling this assumption for years, proving that second-hand enterprise hardware is, in fact, capable of producing the same output and efficiency as new technologies.

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Server Efficiency and Circular Economy: Practical Applications

We present the framework behind Interact, an IT Infrastructure Energy and Cost Analyser tool for Data Centers. This award winning, science based tool is now managed by our sister company and available to all our customers.

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Limitations of linear GHG Protocol carbon reporting in achieving circular progress

The GHG Protocol make no distinction between the traditional take-make-waste supply chains and circular economy alternatives. This paper suggests a practical solution for carbon accountants.

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