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Introduction
CNDCP Targets 2025
Environmental
Social Sustainability
Governance
UK Targets and resilience
levers
Kao Data Targets/
performance
Facilities must match 100% of their
electricity consumption with clean/
carbon free energy sources by December
31st, 2030.
On site clean energy, Local clean
energy, and PPAs. The Strategic
Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP), Regional
Energy Strategic Plans (RESP), Local
Area Energy Plans (LAEP).
REF - 100% / marketbased CUE of 0.
REGOs in place at current sites. New Private wire renewable power
via agreement with Downing Renewable Developments. Community
engagement aligned with the spirit of Local Area Energy Plans (LAEPs).
The SSEP will seek to identify optimal areas for data centre expansion,
which Kao Data will follow closely.
By 1 January 2030: All existing legacy
data centres must improve operations to
meet these identical targets [1, 2].
BREEAM standards for construction
and operation. Smart facilities
management.
Planned PUE of 1.2
at KLON-03 昀氀agship
facility.
Energy ef昀椀ciency via smart facilities management (CBRE FM Partnership).
Achieving BREEAM construction and operational 'excellent' standards.
OCP-Ready approach. Cooling design innovations at KLON-03 as AI-ready
blueprint. Harnessing digital twins to enable further ef昀椀ciency gains.
DEFRA's blueprint/landmark
'Sustainable IT Plan' & the UK 25
year Environment plan.
Committed to 100%
recycling rates for
waste via facilities
management /waste
contract.
Our FM partnership with CBRE will help us obtain more granular data
for waste. Our OCP-Ready status and OCP collaboration is helping us
design with equipment resilience/昀氀exibility in mind.
Regulatory focus is expanding past
operational energy to focus on
embodied carbon, circular economy
principles (e-waste recycling), and
heat export initiatives to local
communities.
Committed to
exploring heat reuse
opportunities where
government incentives
and ecosystem
opportunities align.
Currently exploring heat reuse as a concept for future facilities though
currently prohibitive due to CAPEX risks, regulatory uncertainty and
immature market ecosystem. This is an area of change with government
responses such as UK Heat Network Zones being in a nascent phase.
CNDCP aligned WUE targets. A
recent techUK report recommends
data centre operators and 昀椀rms with
on-premise and enterprise data
centres should commit to measuring
water use and reporting WUE.
Continually improve
water ef昀椀ciency and
reduce water-related
risks.
Begin to develop standardised AI chip cooling requirements to
reduce energy and water demands at scale. Through our new 昀氀agship
KLON-03 facility we are pioneering water ef昀椀cient infrastructure and
cooling designs that are helping to eliminate potable water consumption
wherever possible. Harnessing digital twins to plan for future AI
expansion water and energy requirements.
CNDCP Targets 2030
Kao Data levers
Clean energy
Facilities must match 75% of their
electricity consumption with clean/
carbon-free energy sources by the
end of 2025.
Energy ef昀椀ciency
By 1 January 2025: All new data
centres operating at full capacity
must achieve an annual PUE of 1.3
in cool climates and 1.4 in warm
climates. (see footnote)
Circular economy/Sustainable IT
Operators must assess 100% of their used server equipment for potential reuse,
repair, or recycling. By 2025, 昀椀rms were mandated to implement a custom
percentage target to continually increase server materials redirected into repair
and reuse systems.
Circular heat
Captured exhaust heat must be treated as an energy resource rather than
waste. Operators are required to actively explore and test the practicality of
connecting new facilities to local district heating networks, residential areas, or
nearby industrial heat systems to lower net community energy usage
Water conservation
By 2025: New data centres had to
successfully meet the designated
maximum location-based WUE
benchmarks.
By 2030–2040: Existing facilities must
comply with maximum WUE limits when
revamping expired cooling equipment,
capping general usage to a strict 0.4l/
kWh limit by 2040.
These PUE targets apply to all data centres larger than 50kW of maximum IT power demand.
https://sustainableict.blog.gov.uk/2021/05/20/data-centres-sustainability/
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/昀椀le/908181/defra-sustainable-itstrategy.pdf
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-power-2030-action-plan
https://www.techuk.org/resource/techuk-report-understanding-data-centre-water-use-in-england.html
