UGA wins an award for the energy efficiency of its data center
Sep 14, 2023
At a ceremony held in Antibes on 4 September 2023, the European Commission’s
Code of Conduct Datacentres 2023 award
was presented to UGA.
This year the award recognises six European data centers, including DC-IMAG of UGA.
The Code of Conduct Datacentres was drawn up by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). It aims to encourage data center operators and owners to adopt best practices to reduce energy consumption and promote sustainability. With successive generations of rooms at the Grenoble Data Center, UGA is implementing a policy to reduce its environmental impact. In 2020, two data centers adopted the Code of Conduct Datacentres approach : the DC-IMAG (UGA) and the DC-GREenER (G-INP). Optimising digital hosting goes hand in hand with the creation of a comprehensive range of shared services and everyone’s responsibility in the use of digital technologies. The UGA Datacentre Technical Committee monitors the performance and use of the Grenoble datacentre for Academic & Research.
GRICAD runs it and its members are representative of the organisations hosting equipment. Its ambitious approach to energy efficiency has now been rewarded. The next generation of data centre is being planned, GR3@, the GReen GRid GRenoble Alpes. Designated a Regional Data Centre by the Ministry, it will host the digital resources needed to meet the challenges of the future, while controlling its environmental impact.