Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, and Norwegian colocation provider Green Mountain have deployed cutting-edge technologies to increase efficiency and sustainability at what was among the greenest data centers in the world.
Based in a former NATO facility carved deep in a mountain, the DC1-Stavanger data center runs on 100 percent renewable hydropower and is cooled with water from the fjord, which provides a continuous temperature of 8° C all year round. The unique location offers a great advantage in leveraging renewable energy sources and minimizing cooling equipment for close-to-zero CO2 operations. However, like all data centers, it requires uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and thermal management systems to maintain optimal uptime.
“Sustainability affects everything we do, and sustainability is very important whenever we build new colocation centers and have new features in it,” said Alexander de Flon Rønning, Green Mountain’s design and product manager. “All customers can see where we get our energy from. It’s a key differentiator for us.”
Giordano Albertazzi, president for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Vertiv, said: “The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, signed by major European cloud and data center operators, represents the latest commitment from the data center industry to reduce its environmental footprint. An effective transition to a sustainable and digital future will require both the deployment of new, state-of-the-art data centre facilities and the upgrade of existing sites to harness the latest and most efficient technologies. Vertiv is proud to support this effort.”
According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) [1], [2], [3], data centers play a pivotal role in being at the epicenter of technology innovation, energy efficiency, renewables, and the data economy enabled by digitalization. Datacenter operators like Green Mountain can be taken as a role model to accelerate the sustainable energy transition and pave a path that industries could follow.
To learn more on how Vertiv can help increase data center efficiency, visit Vertiv.com/SWC.