Serverfarm’s modern, award-winning global portfolio of data centers provides enterprises with critical IT infrastructure and capacity, along with a robust DMaaS solution. Our facilities were designed to meet our customers’ rapidly evolving requirements and are highly secure, reliable environments.
InCommand enables enterprise executives and data center teams to manage assets, capacities, and alerts virtually anywhere in the world.
Designed to support high-density cloud and enterprise workloads, our facilities combine scalable campus architecture, advanced cooling systems, and disciplined resource management to enable large-scale compute deployments with operational efficiency built in—minimizing environmental impact while delivering the reliability and performance our customers depend on.
GRESB First
Year Score
Average
PUE*
Average
WUE**
of employees trained
in sustainability
*PUE: Total amount of Energy used / IT equipment energy usage
**WUE: Annual site water usage (liters) / Annual IT equipment energy (kWh)
Our first Sustainability Report establishes a structured foundation for transparent performance measurement, strengthened governance, and data-driven continuous improvement across our global portfolio, reinforcing accountability and long-term environmental and operational resilience.
Download our report to learn more.
Water stewardship is embedded in how we build. Serverfarm integrates closed-loop, water-free cooling systems as a standard design requirement—eliminating operational water waste while supporting high-density AI and hyperscale environments.
Closed-loop cooling architecture
Designed for 60–300kW+ rack densities
Supports next-generation GPU deployments
Reduces exposure to water scarcity and regulatory risk
Serverfarm aligns its global operations with internationally recognized certifications and regulatory frameworks that validate our commitment to quality, environmental stewardship, energy management, information security, and disciplined operational performance across our data center portfolio.
ISO 9001
ISO 14001
ISO 27001
ISO 50001
SOC 1 & 2
Energy Star
GRESB
To learn more about data center sustainability, lend us your ears for The Future of Data Centers sustainability-focused podcast series
Embodied carbon is the CO2 emission associated with the manufacture, transport, construction, maintenance and end of life/disposal of a product or service.
To determine the embodied carbon cost of data centers, HKS, an international design firm, examined the operations of Serverfarm’s Chicago data center using a Whole Building Life-Cycle Analysis.
Buildings and construction directly represent around 39% of all annual global greenhouse gas emissions.
“These emissions can be divided into two categories, building operations and building materials & construction. Each represents the operational carbon and the embodied carbon of buildings respectively,” says HKS.
HKS analyzed Serverfarm’s Chicago facility, a six-story building of just under 150,000 square feet with a capacity for housing more than 4,000 server cabinets. With a rack consumption of 61,320 kWh, the building consumes 25MW of power annually.
Were such a building to be constructed today using standard materials, the carbon cost, carbon dioxide equivalent or CO2e, would be 9,425,673kgs (use of low carbon materials would see a carbon cost of 8,301,691kg but add significantly to the financial cost).
The carbon costs were itemized by material including concrete, steel, glass, wood, plastics, composites, thermal and moisture protection, openings and glazing, and finishes. The factors analyzed by HKS covered potential for global warming, acidification, eutrophication, smog formation and cost of production in non-renewable energy.
The purpose of this Whole Building Life-Cycle Analysis is to (1) create a baseline for a standard newly constructed data center, (2) compare it with a low carbon concrete option and with a building reuse option, and (3) draw conclusions applicable to the industry at large that can further reduce CO2 emissions. This report looks at Serverfarm’s CH1 Chicago data center for comparisons.
