Luxembourg data centre Operator LuxConnect S.A. has received the Data Centres Community Impact Award at the Data Center Awards 2016 ceremony that took place yesterday, 7 June 2016, in Monaco in advance of the Datacloud Europe conference in which LuxConnect is exhibiting; the award rewards operators who made a positive community contribution.
The judges were convinced by LuxConnect’s innovative approach towards cooling at the company’s DC2 data centre in Bissen (Luxembourg). The chilled water needed for the data centre is produced with excess heat generated by an adjacent wood pellet manufacturing plant (KioWatt) that runs on biomass sourced from locally-produced waste wood. Hence, the cooling production is 100% CO2 emission free. In addition, the Kiowatt plant provides hot water for heating to the local area and inputs power into the local grid which contributes to powering the data centre.
Roger Lampach, CEO of LuxConnect, commented ”Through the collaboration with KioWatt, we could develop an innovative zero emission concept for the cooling of our data centre and create synergies with a local partner. LuxConnect is proud that these efforts have been rewarded by the Data Centers Community Impact Award.”
