Description project
As the need for more sustainable computing and communication infrastructures grows in response to climate change and the digital transition, MISD aims to develop a new modular, sustainable and secure-by-design datacenter concept to be deployed in places close to end users (edge computing). This approach seeks to significantly reduce total energy consumption, from cooling to computing power and data flows. The MISD consortium will design, develop, and validate in a fieldlab innovative solutions, both in hardware and software, toward this target.
In work package 5, the UT-BMS research team will co-create and facilitate a use case development program for the MISD project. To realize its full potential and societal impact, the project’s use cases will be systematically explored and developed through interviews, workshops, and seminars with a broad range of stakeholders. This process will contribute to future standards for sustainable, secure, and modular data centers, while also fostering the emergence of multi-stakeholder innovation ecosystems to bring these futures to life. The dissemination and communication of project progress and results of work package 5 will ensure that insights from use case development and stakeholder engagement are shared widely, contributing to broader societal impact.
Expected outcomes
- Practical reports on:
- Use cases for sustainable, secure by design, modular (Edge) datacentres
- Approaches for innovation ecosystem development: mapping and designing value and stakeholder networks, actively enrolling these actors and stakeholders in viable collaborative business models
- Roadmaps for the twin transition (digital and green transformation) to address challenges such as: reduced and fluctuating energy grid availability, increased demands for thermal management, future decarbonization legislation, increasing data sensitivity and security demands
- Academic publications on:
- Mission-driven innovation ecosystem development
- Mission-driven technological innovation
- Organizing for grand challenges
- Design science research and facilitation
- Multi-stakeholder, interorganizational collaborative innovation
- Future imagination and speculation for grand challenges
involved researchers
Duration of the project
January 2024 – December 2029
Funding & partners
MISD project received a total of €34 million from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate under the European Important Projects of Common European Interest - Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) program for 2024-2029. The consortium consists of Asperitas, BetterBe, Deerns, Eurofiber, NBIP (National Internet Providers Management Organization), TNO and University of Twente.