Iron Mountain’s Amsterdam Data Center Recognized At Datacloud Europe 2018 Awards
The facility was lauded for its sustainability and operational excellence.
Iron Mountain Incorporated received a pair of awards recognizing excellence in operations and sustainability efforts for its newly acquired Amsterdam data center. The awards, given out at the annual Datacloud Awards ceremony on June 12 in Monaco, were in the categories of “Circular Economy Leadership,” recognizing excellence in design for creative re-use of elements within data center operations; and “Excellence in Data Center Service Award with Local Impact,” spotlighting excellence in operations in a single, local market within EMEA, GUS, Africa, LATAM, and Scandinavia.
The Amsterdam data center campus, acquired by Iron Mountain in May 2018, has been a 100% carbon-neutral data center since its opening in 2007. The day-to-day Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) figure — a metric used to determine the energy efficiency of a data center — for this large-scale facility is 1.2. The data center, which has the potential to scale to 430,000 sq ft and 34 megawatts of power capacity, also uniquely features real-time PUE monitoring, reporting and optimization using 8,000+ power monitors inside the facility.