Environment

We are committed to achieving best environmental practice and strive to minimise our environmental impact

As a data centre operator we recognise that our main environmental impact comes from the power we use to run our facilities. In order to reduce our energy consumption and cut carbon emissions, we use innovative technologies that dramatically improve the efficiency of data centre power and cooling.  

Many of our data centres use free cooling systems, which enable significant savings when the external ambient temperatures fall below a certain level. We have also invested in technology that measures air and heat streams, which we use to advise customers on the most energy-efficient configuration of their equipment.

In addition to these initiatives, a number of our data centres use energy from renewable sources including those in Paris and Stockholm, Amsterdam and our new Powergate facility in London.

We believe we are building some of the most energy efficient facilities in the world today. For example, to make use of waste heat from the data centre, a greenhouse has been constructed on one side of our new Condorcet Paris data centre through an agreement with the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA – L’Institut national de la recherché agronomique) (read an article from The Sunday Times).

Environmental leadership

We help influence both developers and end users of data centre technology through our membership of the Green Grid. This global consortium seeks to provide industry-wide recommendations on best practice, metrics and technologies that improve overall data centre and business computing energy efficiency.

We are also holders of Corporate Status with regard to the European Code of Conduct for data centres, a new initiative to provide benchmarks for data centre efficiency and best practice. Each one of our data centres has been audited and is operated to the Code’s best practices for maximising energy efficiency.

In recognition of our commitment to environmental best practice we were recently voted 1st in our sector and 16th overall* for Community and Environmental Responsibility’ in Management Today magazine’s annual ‘Britain's Most Admired UK Companies’.

Our leadership has been recognised widely - click here to view the many awards we have won.

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