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Introduction
Environmental
Social Sustainability
Legal & General invest
and Infratil Limited
acquires an equity stake.
Kao Data becomes an
NVIDIA DGX-Ready
Data Centre partner, and
hosts the Cambridge-1
supercomputer, the UK’s
most powerful
at the time.
Governance
Broke ground at
£350 million, 40MW
campus in Stockport,
Greater Manchester.
Construction of new
facility in Slough,
and announces the
construction of their
second data centre
in Harlow (KLON-02).
17.6MW data centre
addition announced in
Harlow (KLON-03).
Plans submitted for
two additional data
centres (KLON-07
and KLON-08) at
our Harlow campus
to support soaring
demand for AI
workloads.
Slough expansion
complete.
Infratil becomes the
majority shareholder.
KLON-03, our
17.6MW, AI-ready
liquid-cooled data
centre operated by
Kao Data on track to
go live at Harlow in
early 2027.
The second Harlow
facility becomes
operational.
2021
Kao Data becomes a
founding signatory
to the Climate Neutral
Data Centre Pact
(CNDCP) committing
to ambitious
targets for energy,
water, and waste
sustainability.
2022
From 2021, diesel
back-up power at
KLON-01 at Harlow
was replaced with
renewable HVO fuel,
cutting back-up power
emissions by over
90%. KLON-02 was
then designed to run
on HVO in 2022.
2023
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Kao Data is chosen
by JISC for its
environmental and
energy ef昀椀ciency
credentials.
Kao SEED Fund
launched to empower
communities for
climate action and
social impact.
Kao Data begins
creation of Carbon
Reduction Plan.
KLON-02 昀椀nished,
and back-up runs on
HVO fuel.
CBRE named as Kao
Data FM partner to
boost sustainability led
performance.
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‘Health, Safety and
Environment’ report
published.
KLON-03 on track
to go live next year,
cutting water usage
and boosting both
WUE & PUE.
Kao Data partners with
Downing Renewable
Developments to
develop Green Data
Solar Farm securing
clean power for Kao
Data’s AI driven
expansion.
New generators at
Slough (KLON-06) run
on HVO for 昀椀rst time.
Harnessing KLON-03’s
AI-ready blueprint,
Kao Data acquires a
new Park Royal site for
a new facility, which
will go live in 2029.
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New build outs
to adopt HVO as
standard going
forward.
Kao Data will
continue to work
with CBRE and
other partners to
embed climate
related metrics
into our business.
SECR enhancements
to generators enacted.
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