Marina Köhn, Green IT expert at the German Environment Agency (UBA), presented the certificate to Volker Jakob, Managing Director of TechniData TCC Products. “Since the new cooling system was placed into operation, I have been really impressed with how TechniData has been able to improve the energy efficiency of its air conditioning system at its data center to such a huge extent,” said Marina Köhn at the award ceremony.
Innovative air conditioning technology can significantly reduce energy consumption and this was why TechniData decided to invest in a new air conditioning system that is not only extremely energy efficient but also uses a natural refrigerant.
Volker Jakob emphasised how important sustainability is to TechniData in his opening address: “Our extensive preliminary work and the extremely useful results of our audits gave us the transparency we needed to improve the sustainable operation of our data center even further.”
The Blue Angel ecolabel has now been certifying data centers that are operated in a particularly energy efficient and resource-conserving manner for ten years. The demand for centralised computing and storage capacity has grown significantly due to digitalisation and thus so has the demand for valuable energy resources and raw materials. The ecolabel for data centers (DE-UZ 228) may be awarded to those data centers:
- whose technical building equipment is operated in a particularly energy efficient, climate friendly and resource-conserving manner,
- whose operators develop and successfully implement a long-term strategy for increasing the energy and resource efficiency of the data center,
- whose information technology is operated efficiently,
- who enable their customers to implement measures to improve energy efficiency,
- and who offer guaranteed minimum standards and transparent reporting to create the conditions for IT operators to operate information technology in an energy efficient manner.
In order to be awarded the Blue Angel, operators of data centers and information technology must comply with minimum requirements and this must be verified by an independent auditor (mandated by the German Environment Agency).