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Interxion , as it looked to add a sustainability focus to its operations . Coors explained that , despite Trump ’ s dismissal of sustainability initiatives in the United States , big customers such as Microsoft , AWS , Google and Facebook still maintained their commitment to their own sustainable targets . As a result , these big clients still expected Interxion to provide energy-efficient data centres .
Interxion ’ s own sustainable ambitions Although Interxion is keen to support its clients ’ sustainability targets by providing them with data centres run on renewable energy , the company is ambitious with its own targets . Outlining the company ’ s ambitions , Coors said : “ Our corporate target
“ We are passionate about sustainability because you cannot design a data centre well without this understanding ”
LEX COORS CHIEF DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGY
& ENGINEERING OFFICER , INTERXION
is a 68 % reduction in scope one and reducing to two emissions by 2030 . Scope one is the direct emissions , such as diesel usage ; and scope two is the indirect emissions .”
He continued : “ I think that these targets are so ambitious because we have close to 300-plus data centres around the globe . We ’ re committed to this programme and we ' re driving year-on-year programmes to achieve this .”
Supporting these ambitions is Interxion ’ s internal function , The Energy Strategy Group . This group has participants from
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