International tech giant IONOS looks to Worcester for its climate strategy blueprint

By Peter Davison

27 July 2023

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International tech giant IONOS has launched a new climate strategy… using its data centre in Worcester as a blueprint.

The Berlin-based web hosting and data centre firm says its Climate Strategy 2030 is a "long-term plan for the future of data centres and office targets."

The firm plans to reduce data centre carbon emissions by 55 per cent from 2019 levels by 2030 from switching from diesel to biofuel-powered generators.

The company is also pledging to source 100 per cent renewable electricity.

As a model, the company is using its data centre in Worcester, which was its most sustainable data centre to date when it opened in October 2022.

The data centre gets 10 per cent of its power needs from on-site solar panels and has backup generators powered by biofuel, reducing carbon emissions by 90 per cent.

It was constructed using carbon neutral steel and bee and bug hotels were installed to improve biodiversity.

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Achim Weiss, CEO of IONOS, said: “We are proud of our environmental sustainability achievements so far.

"Our new 2030 Climate Strategy will build upon our previous initiatives and target 100 per cent renewable energy across all operations, as well as further reducing our carbon footprint and push our suppliers to follow suit.

"The next step towards this strategy is evaluating the use of waste heat from our data centres.”

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.