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Life cycle assessment of the LHCb data centres : Overall impacts & Cooling systems comparison

May 6, 2026, 9:40 AM
25m
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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Speaker

Roman Dandoy (Universite de Liege (BE))

Description

As the global energy demand of data centers continues to increase, reducing their environmental impacts has become a major challenge. This presentation provides an environmental assessment of the LHCb data centers using a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach, in line with CERN’s sustainability objectives. The presentation will include the contribution of the different components of the data centers and a comparison of several data center cooling systems currently in development or already deployed in the LHCb experiment. The objective is to assess the environmental impacts associated with these systems and to identify the main contributors to the overall environmental performance of the infrastructure.

Author

Roman Dandoy (Universite de Liege (BE))

Co-authors

Danil Pavlenko (Institute of Nuclear Physics (KZ)) Francesco Sborzacchi (CERN) Niko Neufeld (CERN) Pierfrancesco Cifra (CERN) Sergey Zvyagintsev (University of Birmingham (GB))

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