Vodafone Group Plc ESG addendum
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Carbon abatement mechanism
Vodafone provides shared centralised data centre hosting services through the data centres they own and manage.
The carbon savings are due to efficiencies of operation within a dedicated managed data centre environment, compared to on premises computing facilities. This being primarily from increased utilisation of servers through virtualisation, and improved power usage effectiveness (PUE).
Cloud & hosting – Vodafone data centres United Kingdom: 26 kgCO 2 e/VM Germany: 74 kgCO 2 e/VM Ireland: 15 kgCO 2 e/VM Cloud & hosting – Equinix data centres 59 kgCO 2 e/VM Cloud & hosting – colocation United Kingdom: 180,991kgCO 2 e/MW Germany: 639,760 kgCO 2 e/MW Ireland: 125,373 kgCO 2 e/MW
Equinix provides shared centralised data centre hosting services that Vodafone customers are transferred to.
The carbon savings are due to efficiencies of operation within a dedicated managed data centre environment, compared to on premises computing facilities. This being primarily from increased utilisation of servers through virtualisation, and improved PUE. Carbon emissions are avoided through Vodafone’s more energy efficient colocation solution, reducing electricity consumption compared to the average regional energy efficiency of datacentres. The savings are due to Vodafone’s improved PUE.
Vodafone offers a shared datacentre for customers to use that has a lower power usage effectiveness ( ‘ PUE ’ ) than on-site server use.
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