{"id":110343,"date":"2024-06-05T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=110343"},"modified":"2024-06-05T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T14:24:20","slug":"verne-partners-with-vaxa-to-promote-sustainability-and-offset-carbon-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2024\/06\/05\/verne-partners-with-vaxa-to-promote-sustainability-and-offset-carbon-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Verne partners with VAXA to promote sustainability and offset carbon emissions\u202f\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Combining Iceland\u2019s natural renewable energy sources with carbon offsetting ensures data centre operations are truly sustainable.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verne, a provider of sustainable data centre solutions for high intensity computing, and VAXA, a sustainable biotech food and nutrition producer, has announced a partnership enabling Verne to offset its residual carbon emissions in Iceland, furthering its long-term sustainability goals and commitment to combatting greenwashing in the data centre industry.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though Verne\u2019s infrastructure in Iceland is powered by 100% renewable energy, it still has a small carbon footprint. In 2021, it powered data centre infrastructure and compute that was equivalent to over 10,000 homes\u2019 electricity usage for the year, generating a carbon footprint of 574 tCO2e \u2013 equivalent to 70 homes\u2019 annual energy usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the company\u2019s efforts to reduce the environmental impact of its operations even further, Verne will work with VAXA to offset its residual Scope 1, 2 and 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions and provide customers with the world\u2019s most sustainable digital infrastructure.\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VAXA is powering the circular economy in Iceland, with a focus on environmentally friendly, sustainable practices that, like Verne\u2019s own facilities, utilise the country\u2019s geothermal power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VAXA\u2019s ground-breaking technology platform leverages the clean, natural outputs of a geothermal plant to grow microalgae indoors, completely independent of the weather conditions. These microalgae, a type known as spirulina, is a highly sustainable food product with a nutritional profile similar to beef.\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSustainability is at the heart of our business, and we\u2019re always looking for ways to make a positive impact,\u201d said Crystal Riedemann, VP Business Development at VAXA. \u201cPartnering with Verne, a like-minded company that has also prioritised sustainability from day one, just made sense, and we\u2019re delighted to be joining them in their mission to end greenwashing in the data centre industry.\u201d\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominic Ward, CEO, Verne, said: \u201cWe are incredibly excited to be partnering with VAXA, a highly innovative company that shares our own values and commitment to sustainability and the circular economy. As the only country powered by 100% renewable energy resources, Iceland is the most sustainable location on earth for data centres. But even still, operations produce emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe data centre industry has a responsibility to be transparent when it comes to sustainability reporting and show what it\u2019s doing to minimise its impact on the planet; that\u2019s why we publish our emissions data and have decided to partner with VAXA, a true sustainability pioneer, to offset our carbon emissions in Iceland,\u201d added Ward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Combining Iceland\u2019s natural renewable energy sources with carbon offsetting ensures data centre operations are truly sustainable. Verne, a provider of sustainable data centre solutions for high intensity computing, and VAXA, a sustainable biotech food and nutrition producer, has announced a partnership enabling Verne to offset its residual carbon emissions in Iceland, furthering its long-term sustainability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":110347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18793,36,93],"tags":[16538,20470,4593,400,20371,20370],"class_list":["post-110343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-green","category-top-stories","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-greenwashing","tag-iceland","tag-renewable-energy","tag-vaxa","tag-verne"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110346,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110343\/revisions\/110346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}