Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft partnered to launch the Data Center Innovation Initiative (DCII).
Nonprofit investor Elemental Impact leads the program.
The initiative accelerates next-generation technologies to improve data center efficiency and sustainability.
Artificial intelligence drives the current massive buildout of these facilities.
The program tests, validates, and scales emerging clean technologies.
These solutions focus on energy, materials, and water within data center environments.
The collaboration will share results to create an industry-wide adoption playbook.
This playbook aims to deliver environmental benefits to local communities.