INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology
CyrusOne moves London sites to
100% renewable energy
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C
yrusOne, a premier global data centre
REIT, has announced that its London
I and London II data centre facilities
are now running on a 100% renewable
energy tariff, a move which the company
says will transfer energy annual usage
equivalent to 52,000 households to zero-
emissions sources.
Comprising a combined 23MW of IT power,
both CyrusOne’s London I data centre in
Slough and its London II facility in Prologis
Park, Stockley, are now served by Hudson
Energy, an independent provider of electricity
and gas to businesses across the UK.
CyrusOne has also confirmed that all new
London data centre inventory, including the
recently announced 9MW London III facility
in Stockley Park, will run off renewable energy.
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In addition to the reduction in carbon
emissions, CyrusOne customers will benefit
from reduced unit costs as a result of the
highly competitive rates secured through the
procurement process and exemptions from
the Climate Change Levy.
“As large energy users in the UK, the data
centre industry is in a strong position to
effect change in terms of how green energy
is priced and made available,” said Tesh
Durvasula, President – Europe, CyrusOne.
“Traditionally, green energy tariffs have
been priced at a premium, but as more users
demand their energy from renewable sources,
the rates we can negotiate are decreasing
rapidly. We continue to explore ways to
maximise the efficiency and resource usage
in our data centres so that we can pass those
benefits along to our customers.”
The move to an all-green energy tariff is the
latest in a wave of innovations championed
by CyrusOne to deliver highly efficient and
sustainable data centre infrastructure to its
customers globally.
More broadly across the company, water
conservation has been a significant factor
in how CyrusOne designs and builds new
data centres.
In the US, for example, CyrusOne’s
hyperscale, purpose-built data centres
use an air-cooled chiller technology with
an integrated compressor and condenser
that cool the closed loop of water. Filling
the pipe with water just a single time
is the only water consumption with the
permanent water supply provided by a
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