World’s First LEED Platinum Data Center Opens in Germany
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Posting Date | 24 September 2009
Country | Germany
Geographic Coverage | Local (city or municipality)
Target Group | Building professionals
Source of funding | Private
Abstract | Citigroup’s new 230,000-square-foot Data Center in Frankfurt is the first data center in the world to achieve LEED Platinum certification. The building was designed by Arup Associates.
Web URL(s) of the case | http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/04/citi-data-center-leeds-germany-to-a-green-fu...
Lessons learnt | The most radical green innovations occur on the inside: the Citi Data Center will require only 30 percent of the power required for services that a typical data center would utilize, and only 40 percent of the heating energy.
Award labels | none
Case Languages | English
Submitted by Alexander Deliyannis (SYMPRAXIS Team)
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