Datum Datacentres, a sustainable enterprise grade information centre and colocation supplier with services in Farnborough and Manchester, has partnered with Bryt Vitality to supply zero carbon, 100% renewable electrical energy for its services.
Bryt Vitality, a part of the Statkraft group – a number one worldwide hydropower firm and Europe’s largest generator of renewable power – is a zero carbon, 100% renewable electrical energy provider to British companies (in comparison with the UK common of 40.8% of electrical energy from renewable sources).
The agency’s zero carbon, 100% renewable gasoline combine at the moment includes 76.4% from wind energy, 21.2% from solar energy, and a couple of.4% from hydro energy. Bryt Vitality’s merchandise have been audited and verified by an unbiased third get together, EcoAct, who’ve licensed that their electrical energy provide is backed by assure of origin certificates (REGOs). Which means that Datum Datacentres can report its electrical energy consumption (Scope 2) as zero carbon below the Greenhouse Gasoline (GHG) Protocol market-based technique.
These REGOs exhibit that Datum has procured renewable electrical energy to match its consumption volumes provided by way of the Nationwide Grid transmission community and native distribution networks. That is at the moment the one official technique for recognising renewable electrical energy provide within the UK, as mandated and operated by the Division for Vitality Safety and Web Zero – and Ofgem.
Dominic Phillips, CEO for Datum Datacentres commented; “As a knowledge centre, we inevitably eat quite a lot of electrical energy to energy our servers and cooling techniques. We needed to seek out an electrical energy provider that might supply us a sustainable answer whereas nonetheless assembly our excessive power calls for. By switching to renewable electrical energy with Bryt Vitality, we hope to exhibit our dedication to sustainability and encourage different companies in our business to do the identical. As extra corporations make the change to renewable electrical energy sources, we will collectively scale back our influence on the atmosphere and create a greater future for generations to return.”
Datum Datacentres offers enterprise grade colocation by means of its community of sustainable, provider impartial information centres. A platform for digital transformation, the agency works with its ecosystem of companions to supply options that assist long-term enterprise progress while serving to purchasers to attain their ESG objectives. Datum is backed by UBS Asset Administration after being acquired by UBS Asset Administration (UBS-AM) Actual Property & Personal Markets (REPM) in 2021.
