We are currently carrying out projects in this area in various Board of Management departments. The common goal: we want to achieve our climate protection targets, implement the circularity requirement, and introduce a holistic total cost of ownership (TCO) approach for our network and IT infrastructure.
Promotion of resource efficiency in the national companies Apart from the centrally controlled projects in this area, the national companies are implementing additional measures to promote circularity and resource efficiency in the network and IT infrastructure. In the United States, efficiency in data centers is being improved through cold aisle containment. We are also enhancing efficiency in Greece through the use of immersion cooling, a new method which involves immersing some of the hardware in a liquid that conducts heat, but not electricity. This delivers energy savings of up to 90 percent for cooling, boosts productivity generally and reduces the carbon footprint by up to 30 percent. Hungary is promoting the use of renewable energies: For a donation, employees sponsor solar modules that supply electricity to a training building. In return, employees receive various benefits, such as an extra day of vacation. Other examples include PC recycling at Magenta Telekom in Austria and the refurbishment of mobile masts in Romania.
We are currently carrying out projects in this area in various Board of Management departments. The common goal: we want to achieve our climate protection targets, implement the circularity requirement, and introduce a holistic total cost of ownership (TCO
) approach for our network and IT infrastructure.
Promotion of resource efficiency in the national companies
Apart from the centrally controlled projects in this area, the national companies are implementing additional measures to promote circularity and resource efficiency in the network and IT infrastructure. In the United States, efficiency in data centers is being improved through cold aisle containment. We are also enhancing efficiency in Greece through the use of immersion cooling, a new method which involves immersing some of the hardware in a liquid that conducts heat, but not electricity. This delivers energy savings of up to 90 percent for cooling, boosts productivity generally and reduces the carbon footprint by up to 30 percent. Hungary is promoting the use of renewable energies: For a donation, employees sponsor solar modules that supply electricity to a training building. In return, employees receive various benefits, such as an extra day of vacation. Other examples include PC recycling at Magenta Telekom in Austria and the refurbishment of mobile masts in Romania.