CtrlS GBDC facility bags Prestigious ASSOCHAM Award for Sustainability Excellence in Energy Management
CtrlS, Asia’s largest Rated-4 Hyperscale Data Center, announced that it has been awarded the most prestigious ASSOCHAM Award for Sustainability Excellence in Energy Management. CtrlS joins an impressive slate of awardees that include organizations, projects who have adopted sustainable practices to efficiently manage energy consumption and reduce carbon footprint.
The current and past winners of ASSOCHAM awards include SAP, Tata Consultancy Services, L&T, Cognizant, Ashok Leyland, ONGC, SBI Life Insurance, JK Tyre, Tata Capital, ICICI Foundation, NTPC, PayTM and others who have made efforts to integrate economic, environmental, and social objectives alongside the company’s operations and growth.
BV Naidu, Chairman of ASSOCHAM Southern Region & Karnataka State Development Council & Managing Director of StartupXeed “We congratulate CtrlS Datacenters for bagging the award for excellence in energy management and making a positive impact during the COVID-19 Pandemic from March 2020 through their innovative and sustainability initiatives in their datacenter operations.”
Being carbon neutral is CtrlS’ major goal. The company believes in handing over a safer, greener and better earth to the next generation and hence, ‘Caring for Planet Earth’ is an integral part of CtrlS DNA. The company has undertaken 200 innovations and 25 green initiatives to reduce carbon footprint and dependency on fossil fuels.
CtrlS has also engineered 80 innovations in energy efficiency and sustainability space, which has reduced the PUE to 1.35. CtrlS is working on reducing electricity consumption, water conservation and re-cycling of waste of every sort. The company aims at being a paperless office, eliminate plastic usage, reduce carbon dioxide, increase usage of renewable energy, and waste management.
The company is also building a Solar Plant spread across 500 acres, the largest ever by an Indian Datacenter aimed at replacing conventional sources of energy, this is a part of the clean energy drive by the company.
Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO and the Green Man of Indian Datacenters said, “We are delighted to receive the ASSOCHAM Award for Sustainability Excellence in Energy Management. This award stands as a testimony to our commitment to energy efficiency and sustainability efforts. The average surface temperature has increased to 1.8 degree Celsius between the year 1800 and now, leading to changes in weather patterns and disturbing balance of nature.”
“Our 80 innovations in the energy efficiency space have thus focused on reducing carbon emissions, deploying clean energy, reducing air pollution, recycling e-waste, eliminating paper usage, conserving water and recycling the same. We express our sincere thanks to the ASSOCHAM jury for bestowing this honour upon us, and we will continue our efforts to make planet a safe and beautiful place to live,” he added.
The 2022 ASSOCHAM Awards recognize companies that have made a positive impact through their innovative and sustainable CSR & sustainability initiatives. ASSOCHAM as an apex chamber of the nation has been regularly engaging itself with the policy makers to bring desired reforms for building an eco-system of sustainability both socially and economically.
About CtrlS
CtrlS is Asia’s Largest Rated 4 Hyperscale Datacenter and serves 60 of the Fortune 500 Global Multinationals and 108 of the ET 500 Indian Companies.
The company is emerging as the world’s largest Rated 4 Hyperscale Datacenter. It operates one million square feet of datacenter space spread across seven datacenters located in Mumbai, Noida, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. The company has had a zero down time record since inception. The company’s Mumbai datacenter facility is certified as world’s first LEED Platinum certified v4 O+M datacenter by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Its Mumbai DC2 is a Rated-4 facility. Its Noida facility is India’s only 100% Quake Proof and Air Pollution Free datacenter facility. Its Mumbai DC2 facility is completely covered by solar panels generating 1 MW of power. The company is soon planning to build a solar park spread across few hundred acres to generate power sufficient to run all its datacenter facilities and eventually become carbon neutral.
CtrlS has initiated its plan to expand its footprint by 5 million square feet. The company has acquired the land for construction of 2 million square feet hyperscale datacenter park in Navi Mumbai, another 2 million square feet hyperscale datacenter park in Hyderabad, while the plans are underway for 1 million square feet facility in Chennai besides deploying 500 edge datacenters in the country. For more information, visit: www.ctrls.com
