NEW YORK - Tuesday, 16. April 2024
New
Assessment enables organizations to identify, document, track, and
report on sustainability metrics & programs across their IT estate
(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Uptime Institute today announced the launch of the comprehensive
Uptime Institute Sustainability Assessment, an assessment and award
service that empowers organizations to clearly assess, benchmark, and
demonstrate the sustainability credentials of their digital
infrastructure to all their stakeholders, whether their applications are
deployed in their own enterprise-operated data centers, as well as
colocation data centers, or hosted by other third-parties such as
hyperscalers or managed service providers.
Organizations that
undertake the Uptime Institute Sustainability Assessment will be able to
develop a clear view of their sustainability status and achievements to
date across a wide range of independent and interdependent corporate
functions and criteria, and then monitor and demonstrate progress over
time, both internally and externally. The insights gained from the
Assessment can be used to make continuous improvements in support of
sustainability commitments while allowing participating organizations to
be publicly recognized for their efforts in meeting globally accepted
digital infrastructure sustainability best practices.
The Uptime
Institute Sustainability Assessment identifies and reviews the steps
that have been taken, and progress made, across all aspects of data
center sustainability in 14 key categories and over 50 subcategories.
This assessment can be used for a single location, or across a
distributed hybrid IT estate. Key areas include IT equipment, energy and
water usage, carbon emissions and waste, including reuse and recycling
of end-of-life equipment, and span disciplines such as IT Operations and
Management, Facility Operations & Management, and cross-functional
areas such as clean energy and IT and facilities equipment procurement
and corporate greenhouse gas reporting. The assessment scope uniquely
balances the global requirement for more efficient and sustainable
digital infrastructure, while also recognizing that resiliency and
availability must not be compromised.
The introduction of the
Uptime Institute Sustainability Assessment comes at a critical time for
all organizations operating and outsourcing digital infrastructure. The
increasing visibility of the data center sector, partly due to the
significant growth in aggregate energy use and carbon emissions within
the sector, has led to increased scrutiny of data centers’ individual
and collective environmental footprint and sustainability strategies by
regulators, legislators, customers and investors alike, and calls for
much greater transparency. Organizations are increasingly expected to
have meaningful oversight of the environmental footprint of their
digital infrastructure, have clear roadmaps covering all areas of data
center sustainability and have defined actionable programs for
continuous improvement.
Recent and repeated research by Uptime
Intelligence suggests that many IT and data center operators are still
at an early stage in this rapidly evolving and increasingly complex
journey. According to Uptime Intelligence’s latest report,
“Sustainability strategies face greater pressure in 2024,” fewer than
half of digital infrastructure operators are compiling and reporting
water usage (41%), only a quarter (26%) track IT waste or recycling, and
only 23% compile and report all three Scopes (1,2, and 3) of carbon
emissions.
To ensure the Uptime Institute Sustainability
Assessment is comprehensive today and also anticipates future needs,
Uptime Institute analyzed over 150 current and proposed standards,
regulations and laws from around the world. Uptime’s global,
multi-disciplinary development team worked with a sophisticated,
representative consortium of over two dozen world-class enterprises and
service providers which collectively have built and operate hundreds of
data centers and have over 3 gigawatts of installed capacity in 38
countries.
Because it takes local and regional requirements, low
carbon energy and green resource availability as well as climatic
conditions into account, the Uptime Institute Sustainability Assessment
is applicable around the world, setting the baseline for globally
accepted digital infrastructure sustainability best practices. The
outputs from the Assessment have been designed to be consistent wherever
possible, with internationally accepted standards and current and
emerging regulatory reporting requirements.
“As with the unique
and groundbreaking production of the Uptime Sustainability Executive
Advisory report series in 2021 and the Accredited Sustainability Advisor
education course first introduced in 2022, this assessment has been
designed to help data center owner-operators and service provider
communities build, deploy, benchmark and manage impactful and practical
sustainability programs that deliver tangible results,” said Ali
Moinuddin, Chief Corporate Development Officer, Uptime Institute. “The
Sustainability Assessment will allow organizations to identify which
sustainability initiatives can help reduce the environmental impact and
operating expenses of their specific data center operating modality and
deployment architecture without comprising the availability and
resiliency of their mission-critical digital infrastructure.”
Since
the first “Uptime Institute Green IT Symposium" in 2007, Uptime has
worked tirelessly to address the profound environmental and economic
impacts of this ever more important sector, which now enables and
underpins the way the world works. The Uptime Institute Sustainability
Assessment is grounded in Uptime's unparalleled depth and breadth of
applied institutional knowledge, which has evolved over two decades of
helping tens of thousands of organizations around the world identify,
manage, and reduce the environmental impact of their digital
infrastructure.
Learn More: For further insight into Uptime’s
Sustainability views and recommendations, register to attend the
upcoming “Assessing Data Center Sustainability: Benchmarking and Best
Practices” webinar on Wednesday, May 8th at 9:00 a.m. PDT here.
About Uptime Institute
Uptime
Institute is the Global Digital Infrastructure Authority. With over
3,400 awards issued in over 114 countries around the globe, and over
1,000 currently active projects in 80+ countries, Uptime has helped tens
of thousands of companies optimize critical IT assets while managing
costs, resources, and efficiency.
For over 30 years, the company
has established industry-leading benchmarks for data center performance,
resilience, sustainability, and efficiency, which provide customers
assurance that their digital infrastructure can perform across a wide
array of operating conditions at a level consistent with their
individual business needs. Uptime’s Tier Standard is the IT industry’s
most trusted and adopted global standard for the design, construction,
and operation of data centers. Offerings include the organization’s Tier
Standard and Certifications, Management & Operations reviews, and
awards, SCIRA-FSI financial sector risk assessment, and a broad range of
additional risk management, as well as performance, availability, and
sustainability offerings. Uptime Education accredited training courses
have been successfully completed by over 10,000 data center
professionals and have now been expanded by the acquisition of CNet
Training, Ltd. which has also trained over 80,000 digital infrastructure
professionals.
Uptime Institute is headquartered in New York,
NY, with main offices in London, Sao Paulo, Dubai, Riyadh, Singapore,
and Taipei, and full time Uptime professionals based in over 25
countries around the world. For more information, please visit
uptimeinstitute.com.
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