Carbon neutral by 2030!.
Empower your data with green edge DC
As a major player in the data center industry, we have a key role to play in making data green and achieve our goal to make our data centers carbon neutral by 2030 (commitment we took as part of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact).
ETIX = ETHICAL INTERNET EXCHANGE
ETIX only deploys Eco-Friendly Data Centers,
providing among the best PUE (energy efficiency ratio)
of the market
Construction
- re-use of existing buildings
- scalable deployment of the technical architecture, following customers’ needs.
- reinforced insulation of the building
- use of local contractors for all installation works (very limited transportation).
Technical solution
- innovative technical architecture using 3 or 4 sources at 67% or 75% usage (instead of 2 at 50%)
- remote monitoring system (DCIM) for precise and real-time management
- human friendly fire-suppression system.
Electrical and mechanical infrastructures
- signing green energy contract with power providers (PPA)
- recycling the heat generated by IT servers to the local climate conditions for 20 years
- cooling equipment, with variable speed, self-regulated on the IT load
- high-efficient electrical equipment with very low losses
- no use of water
Best PUE & WUE trade-off
Data center environmental impact must be estimated not just with the power consumed (PUE) but also with the water used (WUE) in the cooling system. Faced with water shortages following the episodes of drought that are raging in the world, it is more than essential to reduce water consumption in cooling systems.
Etix Everywhere has always opted for technologies that does not consume water, allowing it to benefit from the lowest WUE ratio on the market.
Our future optimizations
Part of the way has already been done, but there is still a lot to do in order to further reduce our environmental footprint.
- Green Power Purchase Agreement
- Recovery of the waste heat on all our DCs
- Reusing instead of building
- Waste treatment
POPULAR QUESTIONS ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY
We combined every popular questions about our Data center sustainability
A data center consumes electricity for the use of hosted computer servers, followed by the cooling system which represents on average 40% of the data center’s electrical power, at Etix this represents only 25%.
The IT sector alone is responsible for 4% of CO2 emissions worldwide, more than air traffic, a quarter of which is attributable to data centers. As these are connected to the national electricity grid, their carbon impact is highly dependent on the country’s electricity mix.
First, technology must be used to reduce the “Power Usage Effectiveness” PUE of the data center. It is then necessary to use low-carbon electricity. Finally, waste heat recovery techniques must be used.
If you can’t find the answer to your question here, or you would simply like to find out more about ETIX Data Center, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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