“HPE is proud to partner with Danfoss to accelerate their sustainable cloud strategy with RISE with SAP and GreenLake. Collaborations with global leaders like Danfoss, who are driving solutions that support the transition to sustainable IT, are important to shifting the entire industry towards more environmentally responsible practices. With GreenLake, we bring the cloud experience to where Danfoss operates its data centers, enabling them to maintain control and visibility over their critical data and applications, without compromising on sustainability priorities.” – Carsten Regner Nielsen, Managing Director Nordic Cluster, HPE
HPE supports Danfoss’ sustainability initiatives: Reduce, Reuse, Re-source
Danfoss has mapped out an ambitious sustainability strategy to decarbonize its company’s operations based on a three-step approach to reduce, re-use and re-source energy. Firstly, energy efficient solutions are applied to reduce energy consumption, then efforts are made to re-use excess heat energy wherever possible, and finally the company works to phase out fossil fuels and source remaining energy demands from renewable sources.
To support its decarbonization commitment and minimize its IT carbon footprint, Danfoss sought a technology partner with deep sustainable IT expertise able to leverage circular economy principles and draw upon industry best practices in asset management, energy efficiency and re-use. Danfoss is working closely with HPE Services to develop modular data centers to provide faster and sustainable data center expansions with greater location flexibility.
Danfoss is already demonstrating heat reuse solutions at the company’s headquarters site in Nordborg, Denmark where, with full build out capacity, reused excess heat from Danfoss’ data centers is capable of providing 25% of the overall heat supply for the 250,000 m2 manufacturing site.
The technology collaboration between HPE and Danfoss also helped cut Danfoss’ data center cooling requirements in half by deploying direct liquid cooling across their data centers.
As part of its Reduce, Re-use, Re-source approach, Danfoss also worked with HPE to create smarter IT lifecycles at assets’ end-of-use phase. Danfoss is partnering with HPE across its global operations to retire its IT assets through HPE Asset Upcycling Services, a solution that enables responsible decommissioning and refurbishment of end-of-use equipment, while recovering economic value from those assets.
By selecting the GreenLake platform, Danfoss is not only demonstrating its commitment to progressing its own decarbonization commitments, but also offering an inspiring showcase of how other companies can tackle their sustainable IT challenge with holistic systems thinking. With analysis showing that the GreenLake platform helps lower infrastructure energy consumption by 53%1, HPE is offering organizations a viable solution to their sustainable IT goals.
