T5 Data Centres, one of the leading companies in data centre construction and facilities management, has become a founding member of the historic Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord.
This is an effort to expand T5’s commitment to sustainable development, and the iMasons Climate Accord effort is a groundbreaking agreement among key industry players to address climate change.
Promoting Global Carbon Accounting
Members of the accord pledge to promote global carbon accounting of digital infrastructure,
providing critical data that could drive the industry to achieve carbon neutrality, as the first step
to ‘Net Zero’. Craig McKesson, Chief Customer Officer for T5 said:
“We are proud to be part of this ambitious and critical initiative. The iMasons Climate Accord establishes important objectives to measure and reduce a site’s carbon footprint. The industry as a whole is moving toward more responsible, proactive sustainability standards and the Accord reflects this growing consensus.”
In addition to T5, other members of the coalition include hyperscale providers Amazon Web
Services, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, and software service providers nZero and Cato, as well
as power utilities, equipment vendors and colocation facilities.
“The iMasons Climate Accord is an important step to unite the industry on reaching carbon
neutrality,” said Dean Nelson, Chairman and Founder of Infrastructure Masons. “We
applaud T5 for joining the Accord. Collaborating with industry peers will compound the results,
accelerating everyone’s progress towards this critical goal.”
The iMasons Climate Accord is the first of its kind in the industry and is designed to establish an
open standard to report carbon emissions in data centre power, materials and products. The
goal is to make sustainable data centre design, construction, and operation choices more
transparent, effective, and cost-efficient, reducing the obstacles to adopting sustainable
practices.
The Accord lays out a number of specific steps to provide transparency, traceability and
identification of the carbon history of data centre products and buildings. A CarbonTrack
monitoring unit installed on data centre devices, for example, records any changes impacting
carbon emissions, such as maintenance or component replacement.
Similar units installed on a data centre structure would provide the total embodied carbon of all construction materials and products that make up that data centre, including any changes such as retrofits, expansions, and product replacements over the structure’s lifecycle. The Maturity Model proposed in the Accord would show the progress of reducing source power carbon and embodied carbon in materials, products and power.
Since 2008, T5 has been helping its customers strategically plan and implement sustainable
practices from initial design through procurement and construction. Now, T5 is taking big steps
toward reducing the industry’s carbon footprint in two significant ways: by working with its
partners at nZero, a 24/7 carbon management platform that gives NGOs, government agencies
and organizations the accurate emissions data they need to reach net zero, and by using
software from Cato, a company that unlocks stranded power in existing data centres to increase
utilization and avoid unnecessary data centre construction.
The partnerships allow T5 to provide its customers with real-time, efficient and transparent digital carbon tracking and reporting.