We have installed 560 solar panels on our flagship data centre in Maidenhead, which will contribute to the aim of self-sustaining energy during the summer to power the site.
The solar panels will generate circa 250,000 kWh of energy pa at the data centre, avoiding 96,061kg of CO2 emissions annually.
The 2,800 sqm data centre in Maidenhead is our largest site across our entire UK estate, which comprises 13 data centres. It’s also our main self managed infrastructure facility, powering more than 12,000 servers.
This investment is part of iomart’s wider long-term sustainability strategy, which has seen us move to power all of our data centres with 100% renewable energy coming from sources including wind, hydro and solar.
David Gammie, CTO at iomart, said: “We have a large portfolio of data centres across the UK and making sure they’re as sustainable as possible is one of our biggest focuses at iomart.
“We’ve already committed to powering all our data centres with 100% renewable energy. This installation at Maidenhead takes that commitment one step further – generating our own energy onsite, and in addition the potential to export energy back into the grid network in the future.
“Our Maidenhead data centre is the ideal location for a project like this. It has a vast roof space, making solar panels the ideal solution.”
The installation, which is being delivered by solar energy company 3ti, was completed earlier in May.