Milestones & Deliverables

Project Phases

iDT4GDC Delivers Working Scheduling, Forecasting & Digital Twin Technology

The iDT4GDC project has completed a productive year two of its three-year duration, delivering software components that help data centres reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions through AI-driven scheduling and digital twin technology. Data centres already consume roughly 1% of global electricity and contribute about 0.3% of worldwide CO2 emissions — a share that continues to grow as demand for AI computing accelerates. iDT4GDC is building an open-source platform that allows operators to optimise energy, carbon, water, and circular-economy performance based on the EU's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact.

• A complete system architecture and backend, giving all project partners a shared technical foundation, to be made available via the project GitHub repository.
• Integration of open-source digital twin and DCIM systems (ExaDigit and OpenDCIM), enabling realistic simulation and side-by-side comparison of data centre configurations.
• A working hardware optimisation engine that dynamically assigns compute tasks across CPUs, GPUs, and FPGA accelerators — already demonstrating 20–30% energy savings per inference task in early testing.
• Green energy forecasting and battery-buffering models, incorporating grid, microgrid, solar, and carbon-pricing data to schedule compute workloads for maximum use of renewable energy.
• An auction-based scheduling marketplace, with seven distinct bidding strategies implemented for testing dynamic, market-driven allocation of compute resources.
• A first interactive dashboard consolidating live and historical telemetry, power, and utilisation data for operators.
• Two academic publications, accepted at DATE 2025 and MMAS'25, sharing modelling and data-agent innovations with the wider research community.

Looking ahead to year three, the consortium will integrate all components into a unified system, expand testing with an ExaDigit-based simulator, and move toward commercial demonstrations and pilots.

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