“ SIMILAR TO THE OTHER PROJECTS , EVERY TIME A DEAL IS MADE BETWEEN ONE AND 12MW , WE WILL SPONSOR A CHILD FOR A YEAR . SO FAR , WE ’ VE SPONSORED OVER 40 CHILDREN ”
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“ SIMILAR TO THE OTHER PROJECTS , EVERY TIME A DEAL IS MADE BETWEEN ONE AND 12MW , WE WILL SPONSOR A CHILD FOR A YEAR . SO FAR , WE ’ VE SPONSORED OVER 40 CHILDREN ”
Another creative QTS sustainability initiative addressing energy and water conservation is the North Water initiative . “ Until recently , data centres in certain parts of the Netherlands were cooled using valuable clean public drinking water . QTS ’ Eemshaven data centre and Google are now using North Water ’ s sustainable ‘ industry water ’ to provide energyefficient cooling for data centre servers while freeing up millions of gallons of clean drinking water for the surrounding community ,” Wright explained .
In addition , QTS recently launched the data centre industry ’ s first sustainability dashboard as part of its API-powered Service Delivery Platform . It enables customers to get a real-time view of the environmental impact of their IT infrastructure hosted in the data centre . The dashboard allows customers to see their building-level power usage effectiveness ( PUE ) and water usage effectiveness ( WUE ) data , typically difficult to obtain but often required for ESG reporting . Customers gain added insight into their environmental impact with access to data illustrating renewable energy , power and water consumption , carbon footprint and carbon savings .
“ All of this gives our customers real-time energy and water use that other companies aren ’ t providing ,” Wright explains . “ This allows us to open up the books and to show that we ’ re being completely transparent . More companies are required to report on their sustainability footprints , so they need our data to ensure they are being completely transparent .”
TRAVIS WRIGHT VICE PRESIDENT OF ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY , QTS qtsdatacenters . com 13