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Powering Progress Responsibly – CyrusOne's 2025 Sustainability Report

CyrusOne — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:29:43 GMT

The release of CyrusOne’s 2025 Sustainability Report highlights the meaningful progress the company has made to keep pace with the convergence of technological advancements, critical environmental concerns, and shifting market demands of the global data center industry. Through our collaborative team approach and sustainability-oriented mindset, we’ve managed the increasing AI-driven demand for capacity while delivering tailored and integrated solutions for customers and reducing our environmental impacts. Most notably, despite more than 70% growth in our business since 2021, our carbon emissions decreased by 29.4% during this time, exceeding our 2024 annual SBTi reduction milestone by more than 16 percentage points.

Covering Environmental, Social and Governance topics, this year’s report dives into our energy efficiency metrics and strategies and progress toward key targets in carbon emission reduction, water usage, and biodiversity, while highlighting our achievements and examples of company innovation.

As we grow, so does our responsibility to our communities, people, partners, and the environment. We're taking bold steps to ensure that every milestone in our success also moves the needle on sustainability. Some notable examples of how we’ve balanced our business growth and commitment to sustainability include:

Governance & Leadership

CyrusOne marked its entry into the Japanese market with our first data center groundbreaking, through a joint venture (CyrusOneKEP) with Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO).

As a result of our strong sustainability record and progress toward our science-based carbon target, in 2024 we secured $11.2 billion in sustainability-linked financing to fund data center growth – effectively aligning our growth with sustainability strategies.

For the 3rd year running, CyrusOne was ranked as ‘Gold’ level by EcoVadis, placing us in the top 5% of rated companies.

Environment

At the backbone of our sustainability strategy is the philosophy of building data centers which are sustainable from the start. Accordingly, we have committed to achieve BREEAM or LEED certification at all new standard build data centers, and in 2024, we received BREEAM Very Good certifications at two of our London data centers, named LON4 and LON5.

We also continue to strive for excellence at existing facilities – in 2024, 15 of our U.S. data centers achieved GBI’s Green Globes® certifications and we received our first TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) certification at our San Antonio SAT5 facility.

Several of our sustainability initiatives—including cooling optimization, our net positive water program, and sustainable procurement initiatives—were recognized by organizations such as Energy+Environment Leader, receiving multiple sustainability awards.

Relationships

Tied into CyrusOne’s business growth is our expanding supply chain. Since supply chain emissions make up 53% of our total greenhouse gas emissions, integrating sustainability has been a key priority in 2024. This resulted in our pilot sustainability supply chain project receiving recognition from the Business Intelligence Group (BIG).

Throughout 2024, we continued our ongoing investment in community initiatives through the release of our independent research report ‘Listening to Communities’, hosting Open Data Center Days at our Frankfurt sites, and participating in the Rising Star Programme’s Roadshow in London, among others.

As a direct result of positive employee feedback, CyrusOne was named a Top Workplace by Dallas Morning News and USA Today, and a certified Great Place to Work® in the UK.

Explore our full 2025 Sustainability Report to see how CyrusOne is powering the future of digital infrastructure—responsibly, collaboratively, and sustainably.

CyrusOne’s Intelliscale– Ushering in a New Era of Data Center Design to Support AI and High Density Computing Needs

CyrusOne — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:16:16 GMT

The rise of ongoing data demand and its impact – for businesses and consumers – cannot be underestimated. From breakthroughs in science to managing large scale financial analytics, data centers are a powerful engine, providing the infrastructure to allow for vast amounts of data to be processed and analyzed.

As with all technologies, there are many challenges, and high-density computing is no exception. Of primary focus for CyrusOne is responding to the need for more and better data centers to support the tsunami of AI and high-density computing needs.

But what is a high-density data center? In a more traditional data center, average rack densities are between 5 – 10 kW per rack. To manage the large amount of computing power needed in a high-density data center, average rack densities can be more than 50 – 300 kW per rack. These higher densities generate significantly more heat, which leads to more innovative thinking in cooling data centers.

For IT decision makers, this creates an impossible equation: How do you scale infrastructure when your current data center approach can't even handle a fraction of the load needed for high density computing?

To help solve this, the data center industry is racing to build data centers to support the massive acceleration of high density computing, and CyrusOne is leading the way with Intelliscale™. A state-of-the-art, data center solution, Intelliscale data centers can occupy just 25% of the space of typical data centers, depending on the application and needs. CyrusOne’s groundbreaking Intelliscale solution, designed for extreme dense deployments and capable of delivering 100-plus megawatts of power, offers seamless scalability, smooth operations, flexibility and reliability.

In the first of a 3-part video series, get ready for an in-depth look at Intelliscale, beginning with "The High-Density Evolution" - exploring how we're redefining scalable data center design. Jim Roche, SVP of Engineering, breaks down how the industry's exponential growth has made conventional approaches inadequate and why Intelliscale represents a fundamental shift in data center design.

To build the right data center, you must understand your workloads. Ranging from data preprocessing and model training to inference and deployment in real-world applications, AI workloads are resource-intensive, requiring significant computational power, memory, and storage to handle large datasets and complex algorithms efficiently. Intelliscale was engineered with adaptability at its core – building infrastructure that can evolve with your changing needs without starting from scratch or facing costly downtime.

In part two of our Intelliscale deep dive: "Engineering for Adaptability" – Jim Roche, reveals how we're designing data centers that can pivot from air to liquid cooling, scale components seamlessly, and accelerate time-to-market through proven repeatability. Plus, discover how industry-wide collaboration is driving innovation that benefits everyone.

To succeed at delivering high-density data centers, you need to have a track record of proven capabilities, innovative thinking, and a look ahead to the future. At CyrusOne we are helping to solve some of the industry’s biggest challenges.

In the final part of the series, "Building on Proven Foundations," Jim Roche shares how CyrusOne is leveraging decades of engineering expertise, trusted technologies, and bold innovation to meet tomorrow’s demands.
From bringing top-tier engineers in-house to mastering large-scale liquid cooling deployments, this episode explores how CyrusOne is creating future-ready data centers grounded in proven practices. Discover how visionary thinking and next-gen workloads are pushing us beyond traditional designs — and why CyrusOne is uniquely positioned to lead that evolution.

Learn More About Intelliscale

Want to learn more? We encourage you check out each video and get in touch with someone from our CyrusOne team today.

2025 Earth Day: Our Power, Our Responsibility

CyrusOne — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:25:04 GMT

This year’s Earth Day theme, “Our Power, Our Planet” couldn’t be more fitting for the data center industry. It’s no secret that data centers use a lot of power—and their impact is growing.

CyrusOne Again Earns EcoVadis 'Gold Level'

CyrusOne — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:52:20 GMT

EcoVadis, the world's largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, has once again ranked CyrusOne's sustainability efforts at the "Gold Level." CyrusOne ranks in the top 5% of the more than 85,000 companies rated by EcoVadis. This is the second consecutive year that CyrusOne has earned this recognition.

A Look Back on CyrusOne's Sustainability Advancements and What's Ahead

CyrusOne — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:46:43 GMT

CyrusOne's sustainability programs made notable achievements in 2022 within each of our four environmental categories: climate, water, biodiversity, and circularity. We are proud of what we achieved over the past year and look forward to continuing to meet our sustainability goals.

CEO Eric Schwartz's One-Year Anniversary: A Look Back and Opportunities Ahead

CyrusOne — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:59:17 GMT

Last year, CyrusOne CEO Eric Schwartz joined the company and, with his experience, brought a bold vision. Recently, Eric had an insightful conversation with CyrusOne Co-founder Dave Ferdman during the Datacloud USA conference in Austin, Texas, discussing the state of the data center industry and CyrusOne's accomplishments over the past year. They delved into a comprehensive recap of recent advancements and offered a glimpse into the exciting future of data centers.

Data Center Frontier Podcast: CyrusOne CEO Eric Schwartz Talks About Financing,Growth and Sustainability

CyrusOne — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:45:45 GMT

CyrusOne CEO Eric Schwartz recently joined Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief of Data Center Frontier, for a podcast discussing the company's recent financing announcements, growth plans, AI adoption, CyrusOne's Intelliscale data center design for AI, and sustainability.

What is Really Driving the Skills Shortage in our Industry?

CyrusOne — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 06:00:00 GMT

By: Aashna Puri

The Future of Data Centers: Embracing Nuclear Power and Small Modular Reactors

CyrusOne — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:00:00 GMT

As demand for data processing and storage continues to increase, the data center industry and power suppliers face mounting challenges in meeting energy needs while maintaining sustainability goals. As discussed in our previous blog post, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) present a promising solution for data center developers.

Five Essential Power Considerations for Colocation in Data Centers

CyrusOne — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 05:15:00 GMT

Typically, the initial questions CyrusOne receives when approached about providing colocation services to customers are related to power, as it is a critical consideration. As more businesses are increasingly turning to colocation services to meet their data storage and processing needs, we have identified five key power considerations to expedite the process and help your team make informed decisions: