Digital Realty also ranked no. 7 on EPA's Top
30 Tech & Telecom List
AUSTIN,
Texas, Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the
largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center,
colocation and interconnection solutions, announces that it ranks
ninth on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's)
National Top 100 List of the largest green power users from
the Green Power Partnership (GPP). The company also ranked seventh
on EPA's list across technology and telecommunication
providers.
EPA's Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that helps
increase green power use among U.S. organizations to advance the
American market for green power and development of those sources as
a way to reduce air pollution and other environmental impacts
associated with electricity use. Digital Realty is proud to have
been signed up to the Partnership since 2016 as its values are in
line with its efforts to design and build more sustainable data
centers, find new ways to power them, and drive improvements in how
it operates them.
Digital Realty has featured on this list as it is using more
than 2.4 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of additional solar and wind
power in the U.S. annually. Its use of green power helps advance
the voluntary market for green power, as well as the development of
renewable energy sources.
As a leading purchaser of renewable energy in the industry,
Digital Realty is working hard to make the switch to renewable
power across its entire portfolio. In 2022, the company's global
renewable energy sourcing programs avoided 1.8 million metric
tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions (mTCO2e), comparable to the
carbon emissions from 361,800 U.S. homes annually.
Digital Realty also reached a cumulative one gigawatt (GW) of
new renewables under contract in 2022 – a 9.8% increase from 2021.
Globally, the company matched 126 global data centers with
renewable energy and achieved 100% renewable energy for its North
American colocation and European portfolios. The company also
boosted its on-site power generation in 2022, adding 1.2 megawatt
(MW) of solar carports in New
Jersey. By moving the needle in the voluntary green power
market, Digital Realty and other GPP members are helping to reduce
the negative health impacts of air emissions including those
related to ozone, fine particles, acid rain, and regional haze.
"We are proud to be recognized by the U.S. EPA as a national
green power leader," said Andy
Power, President & CEO at Digital Realty. "As the
world's largest data center provider, we are committed to
minimizing our impact on the environment – and we are working
alongside our customers, investors, employees, and the communities
where we operate to achieve this goal. By making the choice to use
green power, our company reduces its emissions footprint, while
also sending a message to others across the United States that using green power is
smart business."
"This list of the largest users of green power across the nation
is proof that good business practices can also benefit the
environment," said James
Critchfield, Program Manager of EPA's GPP. "EPA applauds the
leading organizations in the GPP's Top Partner Rankings for their
notable commitment to expanding their use of green power and
protecting the environment."
Digital Realty was the first data center organization of its
size and scale to set aggressive science-based carbon emissions
targets with the Science-Based Target initiative (SBTi). The
company has committed to reducing its Scope 1 and 2 emissions
(direct and indirect company emissions) by 68% and Scope 3
emissions (indirect emissions in its value chain) by 24% by 2030
from 2020 levels.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty brings companies
and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center,
colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the
company's global data center platform, provides customers with a
secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter
Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation
and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty
gives its customers access to the connected data communities that
matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+
facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To
learn more about Digital Realty, please visit
digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and
Twitter.
About EPA's Green Power Partnership
The Green Power
Partnership is a voluntary program that helps increase green power
use among U.S. organizations to advance the American market for
green power and development of those sources as a way to reduce air
pollution and other environmental impacts associated with
electricity use. In 2021, the Partnership had more than 700
Partners voluntarily using more than 85 billion kilowatt-hours of
green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading
organizations such as Fortune 500® companies; small and medium
sized businesses; local, state, and federal governments; and
colleges and universities. For additional information, please visit
www.epa.gov/greenpower.
For Additional Information
Media Contacts
Helen Bleasdale
Digital Realty
+1 737 267 6822
hcbleasdale@digitalrealty.com
Investor Relations
Jordan Sadler / Jim Huseby
Digital Realty
+1 737 281 0101
InvestorRelations@digitalrealty.com
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