Datum’s energy contract with Hartree Solutions adds carbon offsetting to our green credentials

The datacentre services market is growing fast - Mordor Intelligence predicts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.69% between 2020-2025 as increasing numbers of businesses choose to locate their business-critical IT in datacentre facilities. 

This increase in demand for datacentre services is driven largely by the growing usage of cloud platforms and data intensive applications, and the demand for software as a service (SaaS) solutions, which has surged during the coronavirus pandemic to support an increasingly distributed workforce. And, as any business that has manged its own in-house data facility will know, power consumption contributes significantly to the burden of costs; this is often cited as a reason to relocate IT estate and workloads to datacentres that have the infrastructure in place to optimise power consumption more effectively than individual in-house facilities. 

So far, so good. However, datacentres are estimated to account for 1% of worldwide energy usage so they are increasingly under pressure to take action to reduce their environmental impact. This led us to investigate the most sustainable energy solutions in line with our commitment to being a ‘green’ datacentre facility. 

Following advice from the Beond Group, an energy markets consultancy, and based on their environment-focused automated tendering and energy supplier bidding process  (‘Zero Carbon Market’), we identified Hartree Solutions, with its renewable energy and carbon offsetting options as the ideal partner for us. This means we can continue offering the very best colocation service to our clients whilst knowing that we are doing everything we can to reduce our carbon footprint.