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<title> Green Digital Health System Planning and Monitoring Tool</title>
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<h1>Green Digital Health Tool</h1>
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<a href="https://www.paris-de.org">
<img src="media/Paris DE colour.png" alt="PARIS-DE logo" style="height:70px; align:right;"></a></div>
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<h6 class="breadcrumb">You are at the cloud hosting page in planning a digital health system</h6>
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<h4>How to use this site</h4>
<p>This tool shows you the questions that will need to be answered to implement and maintain a sustainable Digital Health System. You probably won't be able to answer all the questions by yourself, so identify the people that have the knowledge and skills on the different areas covered by this tool and ask them the questions. They might be people in other departments or even some of the suppliers used by your organisation.</p>
<p>Beside the questions you will sometimes see an icon. Clicking on them will provide extra information. Below is a brief explanation of what each icon means:</p>
<p><img class="icon" src="media/why.png" alt="Why should you ask this question" style="height:48px;"><b>Why should you ask this question?</b></p><br>
<p><img class="icon" src="media/info.png" alt="Extra information and resources" style="height:48px;"><b>Read more about this subject</b> </p><br>
<p><img class="icon" src="media/idea.png" alt="ideas that you could try" style="height:48px;"><b>Suggest actions to be taken next</b></p>
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<div class="row"><div class="col-11"><h2>Cloud Hosting </h2></div>
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<span class="popuptext" id="newVCS-pop1">If you are not able to answer these questions yourself, ask your potential suppliers the questions below and assess their answers using the explanatory information provided, before deciding whether to use them.<p></p>For context you may want to refer back to this <a href="https://learn.greensoftware.foundation/" target="_blank">short learning module</a> from the Green Software Foundation, or this discussion of <a href="https://github.com/climateaction-tech/grid-aware-software" target="_blank">grid aware software</a> These resources provide information about the whole ecosystem around green software, including data centres and the energy grid. <p></p>In addition the <a href="https://cedaci-compass.weloop.org/">Compass tool</a>, which is designed primarily for technicians in the data centre industry, gives guidance on choosing options for procurement, refurbishment and disposal of servers that are best aligned with the <a href="thesaurus.html#circ_eco" target="_blank">circular economy</a>.
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<label for="a1-2-1-1" class="col-11"><h4>How is the data centre powered? If it is mainly using renewables, is it using its own renewable energy, or is it powered from the grid?</h4>
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<label for="a1-2-1-2" class="col-11"><h4>If it is powered from the grid, where the proportion of the energy supplied that comes from renewable sources is always changing (in response to sun and wind conditions for example), does your hosting provider offer any options for temporal or spatial shifting?
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<span class="popuptext" id="newVCS-pop3">Temporal shifting means making best use of periods when renewables are powering the grid - so maximizing the data processing undertaken during these times. <p></p>Spatial shifting means allowing your processing to run at a data centre in a different location when the energy supply to the primary data centre is low in renewables. <p></p>Clearly the degree to which you can fine-tune a Digital Health system may be limited – data processing to provide monitoring, for example, may need to be happening constantly. But there may be considerable flexibility around other processing, such as reporting and data maintenance tasks.</span></div>
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<label for="a1-2-1-3" class="col-11"><h4>What types of <a href="thesaurus.html#cooling_systems" target="_blank">cooling systems</a> are being used and how much energy and water do they consume?
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<span class="popuptext" id="newVCS-pop4">Inefficient cooling systems in data centres can significantly increase energy and water consumption, and if excessive heat builds up, this can shorten the lifespan of data centre hardware.
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<label for="a1-2-1-4" class="col-11"><h4>Are the PUE, CUE, and WUE sustainability metrics (measuring Power, Carbon, and Water Usage Efficiency respectively), available for the data centre? What are the values for these?
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<span class="popuptext" id="newVCS-pop5">A PUE of 1 is the ideal as it would indicate that all the power supplied to a data centre was used for the computing equipment - so no energy was necessary for things like lighting or cooling. <p></p>A CUE of 0 is ideal as it would indicate that the data centre operated entirely on carbon free energy sources. <p></p>A WUE of 0 is ideal as it would indicate that the data centre consumed no water whilst providing its data storage and processing services. <p></p>Many other useful <a href="https://www.sunbirddcim.com/infographic/top-30-data-center-sustainability-metrics" target="_blank">data centre sustainability metrics</a> are available.
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<label for="a1-2-1-5" class="col-11"><h4>Is excess heat from the data centre recovered and reused, so it can displace fossil fuel heat sources?
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<label for="a1-2-1-6" class="col-11"><h4>What is the plan for the data centre to be sustainably <a href="https://www.simslifecycle.com/resources/white-paper-data-center/" target="_blank">decommissioned </a> if/when it comes to its end of life?</h4></label>
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<span class="popuptext" id="newVCS-pop7">The proliferation, scale, and rate of technological evolution and environmental impacts of data centres are making this an increasingly important question. </span></div></div>
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<label for="a1-2-1-7" class="col-11"><h4>Would your digital health system be hosted in a verified green data centre?
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<span class="popuptext" id="newVCS-pop8">The Green Web Foundation <a href="https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/tools/directory/" target="_blank">maintains a verified list</a> and provides <a href="https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/what-we-accept-as-evidence-of-green-power/" target="_blank">this information for data centre operators and web hosting providers who want to get verified</a>.
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<label for="a1-2-1-8" class="col-11"><h4>What resource pooling options are offered by your hosting provider?
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<span class="popuptext" id="newVCS-pop10">Resource pooling in a data centre employs economies of scale to minimise energy use across customers.
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<h4>Go to planning:</h4>
<a href="newVCS.html">
<h4>Initial page</h4></a>
<a href="p_newVCS.html"><h4>Procurement</h4>
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<a href="dm_newVCS.html"><h4>Data Management and Processing</h4>
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<a href="sr_newVCS.html"><h4>Sustainability Regulations</h4></a>
<a href="ma_newVCS.html"><h4>Monitoring and Assessment</h4></a>
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<li><a href="index.html"><span>Back to the start</span></a></li>
<li><a href="thesaurus.html"><span>Thesaurus</span></a></li>
<li><a href="tool_dev.html"><span>About this tool</span></a></li>
<li>This version is a prototype and will not save text. Please do not share.</li>
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