The European Environment Agency chooses STACK’s co-location solution in Copenhagen

Pursuant to announcement on 1st March 2022, this press release has been updated from the previously branded “DigiPlex” to “STACK Infrastructure,” “STACK,” or “STACK EMEA – Nordics” to reflect the current branding.

Copenhagen, DENMARK — March 18, 2021 — STACK Infrastructure (“STACK”), the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies, has reached an agreement with the European Environment Agency to host the organization’s server park.

Located in the heart of Copenhagen, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has reviewed its data storage strategy, and it became obvious that the existing server room framework had to be upgraded to significantly improve the protection against fire and water damage and that the ventilation and cooling system also needed an upgrade to modern standards.

Data center or cloud?

Various cloud and co-location solutions were assessed based on a number of operational and financial parameters. Eventually, a co-location solution with STACK in Copenhagen was chosen. The European Environment Agency has many small applications handling the same workload throughout the year. It turned out to be uneconomic to transfer the applications to AWS or Azure and, moreover, they were not designed to benefit from such a transfer. An alternative solution to an expensive overhaul of the facilities was to rent space and obtain server room expertise from a data center. The possibility to grow and to team up with a supplier with a green and sustainable profile were key priorities. 

“A key consideration in the decision-making process was for me to know the precise location of our data, and with the co-location solution from STACK we have reached that goal – and our data is now located in a green data centre close to our offices. The solution has proved to be a financial benefit as it has saved us the cost of an overhaul and of ensuring protection against fire, burglary or sabotage and upgrading of the electricity, cooling and ventilation system in our existing server room. On top of that, office space has been made available, enabling us to terminate expensive office leases elsewhere and move staff to the headquarters,” says Søren Roug, Head of IT and Information Systems, EEA.

A sustainable solution

The chosen co-location solution is in keeping with the European Environment Agency’s aim of supporting the environment and sustainable IT solutions. A co-location solution offers a host of advantages: you share the physical framework with others in a flexible and scalable manner while at the same time taking advantage of economies of scale in connection with the purchase of green electricity, etc.

“We are extremely pleased that the European Environment Agency (EEA) has chosen a co-location solution from STACK in Copenhagen. We share the same vision of protecting the environment, and STACK only builds and operates entirely green data centres, where we utilize innovative and sustainable solutions to be able to constantly meet the growing demand for data storage. It is obvious that an increasing number of social-minded businesses consider green IT and data centre solutions where STACK is an obvious partner,” says Fredrik Jansson, CCO, STACK EMEA - Nordics

STACK was established in Copenhagen in 2018 following the takeover of an existing data centre from Telia, which subsequently became one of STACK’s key customers. The data centre is 1,600 square meters. See here for site specifications.

Just last month, STACK announced it had expanded its Danish portfolio further through the acquisition of a plot of 110,000 m2, secured enough renewable power to support the development, as well as onsite water, planning and building permissions to construct five data centers for a major new campus site. This second STACK datacenter site in Denmark will feature waste heat recovery technology to feed into the existing district heating system as part of a significant environmental sustainability commitment.

ABOUT STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

STACK Infrastructure is a leading provider of digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. The Company delivers an extensive geographic footprint spanning the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific and a comprehensive suite of data center and digital infrastructure solutions, including hyperscale campuses and build-to-suit data centers (“HYPERSTACK”), immediately available wholesale colocation and private data suites (“READYSTACK”), and powered shell options (“POWERSTACK”).

With a client-first approach, unparalleled existing capacity, and flexible expansion capacity in the leading data center markets, STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need.

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