Freiburg hosting provider saves through climate-friendly cooling system in the data center over 35 tonnes of CO2 per year, energy saving corresponds to the average consumption of 15 four-person households per year Fribourg, January 11, 2010 – the Freiburg hosting provider continum AG is committed to its responsibility for protecting the environment and has invested in a new energy-efficient cooling system for the own data center. It is consistently climate friendly, ranging from CFC-free insulation to the intelligent free-cooling circuit. NY Museums : the source for more info. This achieves annual energy savings of over 35 tonnes of CO2. This reduction corresponds to the average consumption of 15 four-person households per year. With this measure, the continum AG continues their previous efforts toward Green IT where investment and technical strategies each also under ecological aspects were chosen. We have us as companies already longer cause the obligation taken in, investing whatever under the aspect of an effective contribution to environmental protection check”justifies continum Board Rolf Mathis. This would sometimes new ways left or taken more difficult realization processes in purchasing, as was the case with the new cooling system. This project represented a major challenge for all participating companies and engineers, yet this effort given the positive results with their significant CO2 reduction but worthwhile”, Mathis is satisfied.
About continum: Continum AG operates one of the most advanced Internet data centers in Germany in Freiburg i. br., Germany. The core competence is the secure and highly available operation and the individual support of Internet systems and applications.