The Corporate Colocation and Cloud Buyers Principles Updated
The Corporate Colocation and Cloud Buyers’ Principles Updated: Spring 2018
Contents • Key Talking Points • The Corporate Colocation and Cloud Buyers’ Principles Overview Slide • The Business Case • Putting the Principles Into Practice • Future of Internet Power Overview Slide 2
The Principles | Key Talking Points • The Corporate Colocation and Cloud Buyers’ Principles outline six criteria that companies using colo services would like to see their colo service providers meet, such as providing data on customer energy consumption, disclosing facility energy sources, and supporting renewable energy advocacy efforts. • This signatory campaign was launched in late 2016 and currently has 20 signatories and supporters • Customers of colo data centers and cloud services can become signatories, thereby demonstrating their company’s support for the six Principles. • Cloud and colo providers can become supporters of this effort and work with their customers to put the Principles into practice. • The principles are concise, directional statements that are non bindingand intended to encourage colo customers to engage with providers about options for efficiency and renewables solutions. • By supporting the principles and giving preference to colo providers that meet the criteria, companies will help accelerate the demand for renewable energy and reduce GHG emissions.
The Corporate Colocation and Cloud Buyers’ Principles Six criteria to help companies using colocation data centers meet sustainability goals. The Corporate Colocation and Cloud Buyers’ Principles Signatories Supporters
The Principles | Business Case • The six criteria will significantly help companies that use colocation data centers meet their own corporate environmental sustainability goals. • Signing onto the Principles demonstrates a company’s support for maximizing renewable energy solutions at data centers. • The resources provided to signatories help companies to engage with their providers and the Principles can be used as a criteria checklist when companies are siting new data center providers and locations.
From Principles to Practice: Options Principle 1: Options Provide options for cost-competitive services powered by renewable resources that reduce emissions beyond business as usual. What does this look like in practice? • Purchasing bundled RECs and retiring them in the customer’s name • Provide direct access to on-site and/or local renewable energy sources (e. g. , powering 100% of facility) • Coordinate offsite PPA deal that matches load of single large customer or aggregate load of multiple customers
From Principles to Practice: Data Principle 2: Data Deliver monthly data on the colo customer’s direct and indirect energy consumption, water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and other environmental data. What does this look like in practice? • With monthly bill include energy consumption related to the customer’s IT equipment usage (direct consumption), and its portion of energy consumed by the entire data center facility’s equipment (indirect consumption) • Confirm in contract how energy data is categorized among each entity with regard to GHG emissions (Scope 1, 2, 3) • This can also include water consumption
From Principles to Practice: Incentives Principle 3: Incentives Align the partnership between customer and service provider so both parties have an incentive to reduce energy consumption. What does this look like in practice? • Structure billing such that tenants pay for energy use and therefore see reduced costs from energy efficiency • Confirm renewable energy and zero carbon claims that can be made by both entities so everyone can work toward achieving a renewable energy goal • Set joint goals in contract to meet certain renewable energy and efficiency requirements (e. g. , PUE, % clean energy)
From Principles to Practice: Collaboration Principle 4: Collaboration Provide options for colo customer collaboration on efficiency and renewable energy enhancements. What does this look like in practice? • Allow customers an opportunity to identify themselves among their neighboring tenants (via online communities and/or physical meetings on-site); • Customers with smaller loads can share interests, challenges and opportunities for renewables either through coordination with the colo on a renewable energy option, and/or consideration of aggregating load for an offsite VPPA
From Principles to Practice: Disclosure Principle 5: Disclosure Disclose individual sites and total global corporate footprint, as well as sitespecific energy sources. What does this look like in practice? • Provide existing customers information on energy mix for a specific site (under NDA) • Publish site-specific energy sources on company website (note as selling point for prospective customers) • Colo customers can include this request for site specific energy information in RFP
From Principles to Practice: Advocacy Principle 6: Advocacy Engage in policy advocacy efforts that support the use of renewable energy. What does this look like in practice? • Publicly advocating for pro-renewable energy policies at the local, state and federal level • Example: In 2015, colo vendors and their customers signed on to a letter submitted to the Virginia State Commission, which advocated for Dominion Energy to strongly consider renewable energy sources for their 15 -year integrated resource plan
Future of Internet Power (Fo. IP) Who We Are What We Do Why Join? Our Members Future of Internet Power (Fo. IP) is a key coalition of companies identifying barriers to and developing solutions for energy management and renewable energy procurement by colocation data center facilities (colos) and public cloud service providers. Learn Leverage REBA tools and resources to procure renewable energy. Innovate Partner on solutions for procurement challenges in data centers. Connect Collaborate with peers for exclusive insights, best practices, and lessons learned. Amplify Raise awareness of efforts to decarbonize data centers and the public cloud. Fo. IP brings together colo and cloud customers, service providers, and industry stakeholders to address challenges to energy consumption and access to renewable energy through innovative solutions across the data sector.
Thank You Questions? Lily Proom Associate Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance lproom@rebuyers. org 13
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