Iron Mountain achieves renewable energy milestones in Europe

UK, Ireland and Benelux operations are first company regions to hit RE100, 100% green power goals.

Earlier this year Iron Mountain became one of approximately 140 major corporations to join the RE100 and commit to sourcing all of our global electricity use from new, renewable energy resources. We're pleased to announce that our UK, Ireland and operations in The Netherlands and Belgium, are the first to hit the target. Through a combination of green power contracts, the European procurement and global real estate teams and the Data center business unit collaborated to negotiate supply contracts for wind and other renewable resources for 100% of our electricity use in these countries.

A big change in our business made this accomplishment even more noteworthy. Last year we announced a contract with Credit-Suisse to acquire and operate a large Data Center facility in Slough near London. That facility uses more electricity than the rest of our UK operations combined,and we're actively working to expand the facility to welcome more co-location data center customers. In addition, earlier this year we acquired another data center business, EvoSwitch in Amsterdam, doubling again our energy footprint. If we continued to depend mostly on fossil fuels for electricity generation, our carbon footprint would dramatically turn for the worse. Instead, all of these facilities now are powered by renewable electricity because of a combination of purchases by these locations and new contracts we've executed this year.