DIGITAL EDGE
ESG principles while preparing the company for substantial growth.
Founded in 2020, Digital Edge provides high-quality colocation and interconnect services across APAC – specifically in China, India, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines and South Korea. It has expanded its workforce quickly from a few co-founders to more than 570 employees and seeks to confront both opportunities and challenges while staying true to its operational philosophy of supporting missioncritical business operations.
In order to achieve this, John says the company structures its sustainability approach around three principles: respect for resources, respect for people and communities and respect for transparency.
“ Those core pillars drive everything that we do as an organisation especially across the data centre lifecycle,” he explains.“ From selecting a site for construction of a new data centre facility, where we want to make sure that data centre has a minimal ecological impact in terms of where we build it to how we design that data centre by making sure that it’ s the most efficient in terms of power or water efficiency. These principles are embedded in all of our new data centre projects, including NARRA1 in the Philippines and EDGE2 in Indonesia, which have design PUEs of 1.23 and are already fully powered by 100 % renewable energy.”
This comprehensive approach extends to power procurement, with Digital Edge working closely with utility providers to
“What we’ re designing and building is a flexible, sustainable architecture to allow our customers to deploy into a facility at scale over time”
JOHN FREEMAN, CEO, DIGITAL EDGE
secure renewable energy sources where available, or by looking at what John refers to as“ greener power” alternatives where renewable options remain limited.
As this strategy demonstrates, sustainability considerations have become central to Digital Edge’ s operational planning, rather than being an offshoot to the side.
John says:“ Sustainability is in our culture and embedded in our DNA.”
Operating data centres in tropical climates can often present technical challenges for efficiency metrics. Power Usage Effectiveness( PUE)
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