In 2023, Vertiv continued to advance its imaginative and prescient to create a extra accountable future by specializing in environment friendly merchandise and methods, accountable operations, its folks, its neighbours, provide chain integrity, and governance. In recognition of the important function the tech and knowledge centre industries play within the world vitality panorama, the “One Vertiv, One World” plan will assist information the corporate’s subsequent steps in pursuit of making long-term worth for its shareholders, clients, and the communities it serves.
“We proceed to advance our efforts to be a accountable world and company citizen whereas concurrently offering services that assist our clients obtain their very own environmental sustainability targets,” stated Giordano Albertazzi, Vertiv CEO. “With demand for AI rising quickly internationally, we at Vertiv are offering infrastructure merchandise, methods and companies that allow our clients to advance their AI initiatives with excessive efficiency and a decrease environmental impression.”
Efforts and initiatives highlighted within the 2023 report embrace:
· An expanded providing of each excessive effectivity liquid cooling options and low-global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants to assist Vertiv clients advance their AI initiatives and assist allow efficiency with a decrease environmental impression.
· The acquisition of CoolTera Ltd. (CoolTera), a designer and producer of extremely environment friendly liquid cooling options, bringing further superior cooling experience, controls and methods to Vertiv’s already strong thermal administration portfolio.
· The rollout of a brand new battery vitality storage system (BESS) with lithium-ion batteries that gives utility-scale vitality storage that can be utilized as an always-on energy provide, serving to clients assist operational resilience, keep away from peak demand costs, and rely extra on different distributed vitality sources resembling photo voltaic panels, wind generators, and hydrogen gas cells to assist scale back carbon emissions and preserve reliability. The microgrid resolution was additionally unveiled on the Vertiv Delaware, Ohio facility as a Buyer Expertise Centre, leveraging each photo voltaic arrays and hydrogen gas cells as different vitality sources that may present vitality for Vertiv operations and function as a take a look at mattress to display the lowered carbon emissions resolution for purchasers.
· The introduction of the Vertiv™ TimberMod™, that includes mass timber as a key structural element as an alternative of metal for prefabricated modular (PFM) knowledge centre options, offering the potential to minimise useful resource depletion and decrease the product’s carbon footprint as in comparison with metal alternate options.
· A refreshed Information to Knowledge Centre Sustainability with up to date statistics and different related data to assist Vertiv’s clients and different stakeholders.
· An replace on Vertiv’s operational effectivity efforts to trace and monitor the corporate’s main environmental impacts and refine processes to streamline the gathering of metrics associated to carbon emissions, vitality consumption, water utilization, and waste technology and recycling. A notable instance is the Monterrey, Mexico, facility water reclamation system, which reduces the operation’s reliance on town water provide by amassing water from the air-con models used to chill the power and turns it into water usable for different functions.
· Examples of how Vertiv is making an impression within the communities we serve.
· A report on Vertiv’s dedication to provide chain integrity to guarantee compliance with main trade requirements for accountable minerals, human rights, and labour circumstances.
