Frankfurt, March 4, 2024 – maincubes, a European data center owner and operator offering colocation solutions for cloud service providers, the public sector, global enterprises, and hyperscalers has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for pure solar power from Stadtwerke Göttingen AG for 34 megawatts peak (MWp). This agreement will provide FRA03 with pure solar power and is a testament of maincubes’ sustainability and future pursuits of renewable energy.
As an important role in maincubes’ sustainability strategy, the company chose the award-winning Stadtwerke Göttingen because of its commitment to reliability and flexibility which aligns with customers’ sustainability needs.
“This first PPA contract is a milestone that we are proud of,” states Albrecht Kraas, CTO at maincubes. “We are setting the framework for future sustainability standards and further optimizing an environmentally friendly energy supply for our data centers.”
maincubes sustainability strategy involves its EMAS registration (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme), enabling maincubes to demonstrate its environmental commitment with transparency. Also, its agile digital infrastructure is aligned with customers’ ESG requirements.
“The conclusion of the PPA agreement with maincubes gives Stadtwerke Göttingen AG the economic security for further major investments in renewable energies to achieve climate targets in the Göttingen region,” says Jochen Ritter, Head of Energy Services and Heating at Stadtwerke Göttingen AG.
Sustainability is the central component of maincubes. This is demonstrated by its use of hydropower in the Netherlands, construction of wind turbines in India and active involvement in the Open Compute Foundation (OCP), a network of data center operators, telecommunications and server providers that promotes innovation and more sustainable products.
About maincubes:
As a European provider, maincubes develops and operates data centers in the leading regions of Frankfurt, Berlin, and Amsterdam. The data centers offer its customers the highest level of security, certified sustainability, current quality standards and flexible solutions for individual customer requirements. With state-of-the-art technology in its data centers, maincubes guarantees uninterrupted availability of its customers’ IT infrastructure. maincubes’ customers include the public sector, national and international blue-chip companies, international cloud service providers and hyperscalers who value a sustainable, fail-safe, and high-performance digital infrastructure. maincubes was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. www.maincubes.com.
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