Herb
Zien is executive vice president and chief development officer of
Source IT Energy LLC, a company formed to provide energy and cooling
solutions for enterprise-class data centers. Zien’s
responsibilities include developing an environmentally-friendly
engineering approach to the problem of heating and cooling data
centers, identifying appropriate sites for the application of this
new technology, and implementing projects at those sites.
In 2016, 82% of the S&P 500 companies published corporate sustainability reports — up from less than 20% in 2011. This trend in sustainability reporting is a response to the growing public interest in large organizations’ environmental impact. Hyperscale data center developers are no exception.