CtrlS bags sustainability innovation award

The award was presented by KT Rama Rao, Minister of Industry & Commerce, IT, E&C and Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Government of Telangana, recently.

Hyderabad: CtrlS, Asia’s largest rated-4 data centre, bagged the best sustainability award in recognition of its innovations and initiatives in the sustainability efforts.

The award was presented by KT Rama Rao, Minister of Industry & Commerce, IT, E&C and Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Government of Telangana, recently.

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Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder and CEO, CtrlS Datacenter said, the award recognises the innovation and efforts by CtrlS team towards elimination of carbon emissions, water recycling, achieving higher levels of energy efficiency, deployment of solar, maximised exclusion of plastic from the ecosystem, e-waste re-cycling and management, ninety per cent elimination of paper usage thereby saving trees.

The sustainability efforts by CtrlS have eliminated 2,00,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide, 10 million tonnes of water recycle, 59,795 tonnes of waste recycled, displaced carbon equivalent to 43,478 cars driven in a year. It operates the largest number of green hyperscale data centres, certified as LEED Platinum v4 O+M by USGBC.

“The future belongs to such companies which not only create wealth for themselves but are also socially responsible,” said, Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary, Government of Telangana.

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