Company becomes the first FISMA High-compliant data center operator
to commit as a Better Buildings Challenge Partner, pledging 8.75
Megawatts in reduced energy intensity
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Iron
Mountain Incorporated® (NYSE:IRM), the storage
and information management company, announced today that its data center
business unit has joined the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Better
Buildings Initiative as a Challenge Partner. Iron Mountain becomes the
first FISMA High-compliant data center operator to commit at this level
and has pledged to reduce data center energy intensity by 20% over a
ten-year period.
“Data center power consumption continues to increase in conjunction with
the incredible demand for IT services and resources that power today’s
digital world,” said Dana Adams, Iron Mountain vice president of data
center portfolio and operations. “As an environmentally responsible data
center operator, we understand that an ongoing commitment to improve
energy efficiency is the best way to serve our customers. We are
innovating to stay ahead of the curve on energy efficiency and are
excited to participate in the Better Buildings Initiative.”
The Better Buildings Initiative is a Presidential leadership initiative,
which calls on chief executive officers, university presidents, and
federal, state and local government leaders to motivate significant
improvements in energy efficiency across the United States. Data center
operators across governments, academia and private industry can engage
with the DOE to learn best practices from industry partners and their
customers, who have committed to continuously improve data center Power
Usage Effectiveness (PUE).
“Better Buildings partners demonstrate how powerful a public-private
partnership dedicated to solving a specific problem can be,” said U.S.
Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz. “Bringing energy efficiency to scale
is a national priority. We applaud the dedication of Iron Mountain to
come up with innovative solutions that advance our nation’s ability to
reduce carbon emissions, and spur economic savings in our businesses and
communities.”
“Joining the DOE’s Better Buildings Initiative demonstrates Iron
Mountain’s commitment to addressing the unique needs of the federal
community,” said Michael Lewis, general manager of Iron Mountain
Government Services. “This will also help drive our own sustainability
goals forward, delivering an efficient data center environment for
federal agencies who are under pressure to meet mandated consolidation,
optimization and continuity requirements.”
Iron Mountain’s Better Buildings commitment applies to data center
facilities in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Kansas City. The goal will be
achieved by increasing the utilization of naturally occurring energy
efficient data center features such as geothermal cooling and naturally
chilled recycled water. Additionally, Iron Mountain will deploy
infrastructure innovations such as air and water-side economization as
well as improved containment. These innovations further optimize Iron
Mountain’s data centers for federal requirements such as Continuity of
Operations and Continuity of Government. Iron Mountain has a proven
track record of building energy efficient facilities with a full
portfolio of data centers capable of meeting the exacting requirements
for sustainability planning in Presidential Executive Order 13693.
For more information on the DOE Better Building Initiative, visit http://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/partners/iron-mountain-data-centers/.
About Iron Mountain’s Data Center Services
For over 30
years, enterprise organizations have trusted Iron Mountain to develop
and manage their data center environments with a portfolio of
ultra-secure facilities and compliant services. Iron Mountain’s carrier
and service provider neutral facilities offer both retail colocation and
wholesale data center leasing options. This solution leverages Iron
Mountain’s 60+ year heritage of protecting what matters most to our
customers by delivering the same high levels of security and compliance
to their data center environments. The company’s national data center is
located within a unique, 145-acre underground location outside
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with additional data centers in Boston,
Massachusetts and Kansas City, Missouri. For more information, visit www.ironmountain.com/datacenters.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM)
is a leading provider of storage and information management services.
The company’s real estate network of over 67 million square feet across
more than 1,000 facilities in 36 countries allows it to serve customers
with speed and accuracy. And its solutions for records
management, data
management, document
management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage
costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use
their information for business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain
stores and protects billions of information assets, including business
documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com for
more information.
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