System Efficiency in Data Centers: Why Optimization Without Coherence Structurally Fails
19 March 2026, DCpedia, Marco Verzijl
Article: System Efficiency in Data Centers: Why Optimization Without Coherence Structurally Fails (machine translated from Dutch)
Data centers are becoming more and more efficient per component, but
increasingly heavy as a system. This article shows why fragmentation
between IT, energy, cooling, and compliance leads to structural
inefficiencies — and why system efficiencyis an administrative, not a
technical, task.