ESG / Sustainability Report / 2022 ESG / Sustainability Report / 2022 Green Data Center, energy sustainability Particularly with regard to the Vicenza Data Center, in the models course of 2022 the process was initiated of recertifying compliance with the ANSI/TIA-942-B standard, which takes Our Data Centers guarantee the management of the IT place every three years. technological infrastructure on which all of the Group’s Italian offices rely for their remote activities and therefore The objective consists of certifying the Data Center guarantee the quality of the services we offer to our at Rating 4 in all four areas considered by the Our car fleet: more hybrid and more electric customers. standard: mechanical, electrical, physical security and telecommunications. In December 2022, the company fleet had 1,736 vehicles, The proper and responsible management of the impact of which 334 hybrid/electric purchased under long-term generated by our Data Centers on the ecosystem, In addition, in 2022 the optimization of thermodynamic rental (LTR) agreements. In 2021, the policy relating to the mainly with the production of electronic waste and the flows in the DPC rooms of the Data Center was concluded, use and type of vehicles available (car list) was updated. consumption of electricity (IT equipment as well as cooling, with the physical compartmentalization of the cold and hot After electric vehicles were introduced, charging stations ventilation and electrical distribution systems), is one of corridors. were installed at our main offices. our priorities, and we demonstrate this through constant investments aimed at achieving excellence in terms of Therefore, in 2022 excellent environmental performance In 2022, in the wake of the new policy issued in 2021, environmental sustainability. was recorded by the Vicenza Data Center, which already we ordered 377 hybrid vehicles which, given the current in 2017 had obtained the TIER IV certification from the market situation, will be delivered in the course of 2023- Uptime Institute, for the initial design phase and for the final 2024. implementation and on-site post-verification phase. turned on 24/7, with LED lights was also planned. This With redundancy at the level of electrical circuits, cooling On the path towards electrifying the company fleet, The Pont-Saint-Martin energy efficiency project Since 2011, the Pont-Saint-Martin Data Center in Valle replacement has limited benefits in terms of energy and network, the Data Center is able to maintain a high Engineering’s priority objective is to install charging Environmental d’Aosta has had a geothermal cooling system, which efficiency, but in any event has important advantages as level of energy efficiency (PUE of 1.82 in 2022) and, at stations at the offices. Furthermore, incentives are offered works by exploiting the water present in the aquifer below, concerns the modernization and life of the lighting systems. the same time, significant system reliability, thanks to low to encourage employees to adopt electric, plug-in or full characterized by a constant temperature of roughly 13 environmental impact solutions and structural adaptations, electric vehicles, such as charging cards that can be used degrees. In May 2021, a project was initiated to increase Furthermore, in 2022 the project of compartmentalizing such as separation from the outside environment through to charge the vehicle even at third-party charging stations, the structure’s capacity by drilling two additional wells thermodynamic flows within the bunker continued, making insulating corridors. This architecture makes it possible to and fringe benefit subsidies. The charging stations at the Environmental(and completely updating the plant’s technology) and it possible to keep heat and cold separate, generating identify and isolate any possible damage to the center’s company’s offices will also be updated and new ones will boosting the capacity to withdraw the water used for benefits from lower temperatures in the server rooms and, systems, while also supporting and maintaining active all be introduced. cooling (from 50 l/s to 96 l/s). The investment immediately hence, a decrease in the energy required for cooling. IT loads and the business critical systems of the customers began to generate some benefits: the refrigeration units hosted at that location. used to cool water (7 degrees) were turned off and the An additional environmental benefit of this new plant consumption of kWh decreased, allowing for significant structure consists of the recovery of part of the heat Furthermore, for this Data Center the study was concluded savings in the purchase of electricity. In particular, the present in the water in the return circuit, which is used for for the replacement of the air-water refrigeration units initial consistent results of this initiative were recorded in heating the offices, lowering the atmospheric emissions with a new high efficiency free cooling system that will November-December 2021. Confirming the excellent level linked to the combustion of methane and the costs of make it possible to fully eliminate water consumption and of efficiency, in 2022 the Pont-Saint-Martin Data Center purchasing it. significantly reduce electricity consumption compared to further reduced its PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness, the the current water-water systems. The replacement work will parameter that measures energy sustainability), from 1.51 be completed by the end of December 2023. to 1.48, following the completion of the hydronic project. In 2022, the replacement of all neon lights, which are The ANSI/TIA-942-B Rating 4 certification was successfully obtained in July 2023, was published on the website of the certifying body and will be valid for three years until 2026. This makes the Data Center certified with the highest In April 2022, activities at the Assago Data Center were degree of reliability on the basis of ANSI/TIA-942B as well discontinued: all of the data of our customers previously as according to the Uptime Institute. managed at the Milan center were transferred to the two more efficient data centers in Pont-Saint-Martin and Vicenza. With service levels remaining the same, we will therefore be able to significantly reduce energy consumption and the associated emissions. 24 Engineering © Engineering © 25