- Seagate's Mozaic 3+ platform offers 3x more storage with a 70% reduction in carbon emissions per terabyte.
- Goldman Sachs forecasts a 165% increase in global data center power demand by 2030.
- Only 3.3% of business leaders prioritize sustainability in purchasing decisions despite environmental concerns.
Seagate Technology (STX, Financial) has unveiled its "Decarbonizing Data" report, which highlights the mounting sustainability challenges faced by data centers as the demand for AI continues to grow. The report indicates that 53.5% of business leaders now view energy consumption as a top concern. This concern is supported by a Goldman Sachs projection stating that global power demand from data centers will surge by 165% by 2030, compared to 2023 levels.
Key findings from the report reveal that 94.5% of participants are experiencing increasing storage needs, with 97% of them expecting AI growth to further impact storage demand. However, there is a noticeable disconnect between environmental concerns and purchasing priorities—despite 95% of respondents expressing environmental concerns, only 3.3% prioritize sustainability in their purchasing decisions.
Seagate's HAMR-based Mozaic 3+ platform provides a potential solution by enabling up to 3x more storage capacity in the same physical footprint. This innovation helps reduce embodied carbon by over 70% per terabyte and lowers the cost per terabyte by 25%. These advancements directly tackle significant barriers identified in the survey, which include high energy consumption (53.5%), raw material requirements (49.5%), and space constraints (45.5%).
Jason Feist, Seagate's senior vice president of cloud marketing, emphasizes that data centers face intense scrutiny not just due to supporting modern AI workloads, but because they have become one of the most energy-intensive sectors. The report suggests that a holistic approach spanning technological innovation, lifecycle management, and shared accountability across the ecosystem is essential to ensure the growth of AI and data center operations aligns with environmental sustainability.
