Sustainable Data Center Operations
Sustainability is at the core of our mission to improve our people, process and planet. With our increased impact in the world of digital infrastructure, we strive to lead the industry with a new operational model that encompasses the acceleration of sustainable practices through our services, workforce and company culture. This process requires consensus, collaboration and innovation.
We strive to regularly assess our global impact by:
- Maintaining our ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Rating
- Engaging with stakeholders to share and review initiatives and provide transparency in our sustainability efforts
- Increasing transparency around the environmental impacts of our operations, including measuring greenhouse gas emissions
- Reviewing current sustainability initiatives and programs regularly with a focus on innovation and improvement
- Consistently attaining ISO (International Organization for Standardization) compliance, in turn, helping to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Aligning our goals and initiatives to applicable U.S. and global standards
- Data center sustainability consulting – understanding environmental risks and rewards to realize benefits for our clients
- Holding our vendors to our standards
- Instilling a proper workforce development strategy that provides training on the latest sustainable practices and rewarding outcomes based on measurement and goal setting to define success
- Educating the Salute team how to engage in sustainability at home, work, and within their communities
- Consistently auditing our processes to transform clients’ sustainability roadmaps
- Committing to a Green Purchasing Policy by seeking opportunities to increase our purchase of eco-friendly products – the goal is to reduce product-based GHGs and achieving a net or near zero by 2025.
For additional information on how we can improve your data center sustainability practices through operations, please contact us.
As we scale, Salute recognizes the need for sustainability in our business and globally. Endeavoring to improve continuously, foster transparency and drive bottom-line results with clients, we comply with ISO best practices and participate in annual audits of our operational processes and our ESG efforts. Additionally, we completed our Sustainalytics audit and are happy to report we achieved a low-risk rating.
ESG Rating
What does our ESG rating mean?
ISO 14001 Certification
ISO 14001 - What does it mean?
Pillars to Tackling Scope 2&3 Emissions
Salute Focus
Client Focus
Global Focus
Our Sustainability Policy
Salute endeavors to bring client need and sustainable practices together to help reduce the environmental impact of data centers worldwide. The utilization of products which reduce solid waste, conserve water, and protect natural resources is our goal. We strive to make thoughtful and responsible choices which will have lasting positive impacts on our customers, employees, suppliers, stakeholders, and the communities we serve. Learn more about our mission.
Data Center Sustainability Best Practices
On a Mission To Achieve NetZero
Achieving Carbon Neutrality: A Mission Critical Company’s Lessons Learned
Salute Mission Critical shares lessons learned on how to achieve carbon neutrality through data center operations.
Driving Efficiency and Sustainability
Data Center Sustainability: Achieving a Carbon Neutral Environment Through Data Center Operations
Salute Mission Critical shares how to drive efficiency and data center sustainability through data center operations.
Sustainable Containment Solutions
Saving Money with Sustainable Data Center Containment Solutions
Salute Mission Critical breaks down the cost savings in ROI and sustainability using data center containment solutions.
Virtual Roundtable
Degrees of Green: Evolutionary & Revolutionary Approaches to Data Center Sustainability
Data centers are a keystone of society today and the industry recognizes its responsibility to protect the planet; future generations are counting on us to lead the efforts toward environmental stewardship.
Green Strategies
Green Purchasing Strategies for Data Centers
This guide will give you the tools to easily transition your purchasing processes to be more sustainable.
Sustainability Through Critical Infrastructure
Achieving Sustainability Through Critical Infrastructure Strategies
During this DIN talk, we dive into the details with EVP of Global Operations at Salute Mission Critical, Mike Jones! He shares his experience with carbon neutrality, renewable energy, and pioneering new sustainable strategies that improve performance and lower data center costs.
The Infrastructure Masons Climate Accord
Salute Mission Critical is a part of a coalition united on carbon
reduction in digital infrastructure. The objective is global carbon
accounting of digital infrastructure influencing market-based decisions to drive the industry to achieve carbon neutrality.
We pledge to adopt an open standard to report carbon in data center power, materials and products and a maturity model to communicate participant progress. To learn more, visit imasons.org/climateaccord.
