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Introduction
Environmental
Social Sustainability
Governance
Our investor partners
Industry partners
Kao Data is privately funded and backed by Goldacre
(part of the Noé Group), Legal & General Capital and
New Zealand-based Infratil, forming a strong investor
base committed to delivering sustainable, resilient
digital infrastructure. Infratil is in昀氀uential in Kao Data’s
sustainability governance oversight, supporting our
assessment of asset-level physical and climate transition
risk exposure. Throughout 2025-26, our investor partners
have continued to help guide our UK and European
expansion, as well as monitoring our progress against
the ESG focused (GRESB) Infrastructure & asset
level standards.
Kao Data is an active participant and contributor to many
industry events and is a member of several working groups
and industry think tanks. Kao Data engages with external
bodies such as ASHRAE, the American trade organisation
that drives global data centre standards for operating
conditions for IT equipment. ASHRAE feeds into the
European Code of Conduct for Energy Ef昀椀ciency in Data
Centres and ISO 50001 Data Centre Energy Management.
We are also active contributors to the work of techUK,
with our head of compliance being Vice Chair of techUK’s
ESG+ Group. To futureproof our operations, we are active
members of the Open Compute Project, a collaborative,
global community focused on re-designing hardware
technology to ef昀椀ciently support the growing demands on
compute infrastructure.
Read more in Our investors
Read more in Our industry partners
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