Boden Type Data Center project wins prestigious DCD Award
Boden Type Data Center has been awarded with Data Center Dynamics’ prestigious prize in the category Non-Profit Industry Initiative of the Year.
Many say DCD’s Annual Global Awards Ceremony is the Oscars of the data center industry. Several hundred participants gathered from all over the world in London last week to see who this year’s winners are. The Boden Type DC project, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme came first in the Non-profit category competing with other ambitious ideas. This award is about recognizing the great initiatives to educate and influence the data center sector that NGOs, professional bodies and academia put together.
The judges rewarded the project’s truly remarkable results of the sustainable, ultra efficient, ultra low cost data center that has been built in Boden, Sweden having used highly innovative engineering principles. The first installation of the Boden Type DC concept started operations in early 2019 and has been operating with record breaking efficiencies ever since. Consortium members H1 Systems, Fraunhofer IOSB, RISE, EcoCooling and Boden Business Agency all hope to see the technologies used spread in the industry in many types of data center installations in the near future.
The project is looking to elaborate further on key findings next year.
“We are very proud that our efforts on sustainable data center development are being recognized through the BTDC project,” says Nils Lindh, Director Data Center Development - Boden Business Agency.
"BodenTypeDC is on its own way to success - it has already happened to us that our very own project was introduced to our engineers as industry best practice in a regional partner event. Great to see how we raise attention all over the world from Singapore’s OCP teams to London’s DCD Award jury. At H1 Systems we were aiming exactly for this great European cooperation with this global goal of increasing data center energy efficiency when we launched our project 2 years ago,” says László Kozma, Project Coordinator, H1 Systems
“The award highlights what has been achieved by the consortium members in the last two years. We are very proud of the project and the results so far and are looking forward to seeing the impact this has on improving the efficiency of data centres across Europe,” says Alan Beresford, MD , EcoCooling.
"The wanted position for RISE datacenter research is to contribute to future sustainable datacenters and demonstrate technologies to enable efficient operations. We are proud beeing part of this successful BTDC H2020 project team and collaboration," says Tor Björn Minde, Head of Labs RISE ICE datacenter research.
“We at Fraunhofer IOSB are very proud to be part of such an excellent team and the outstanding award which we are very honored to receive,” says
Dr. Thomas Usländer, Head of Department Information Management and Production Control, Fraunhofer IOSB.
For further information please refer to www.bodentypedc.eu or the below media contact.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 768875
Contact Information
Nils Lindh, Director Data Center Development
+46 70 740 1336, nils.lindh@bodenbusinessagency.com
Boden Business Agency is a municipality owned company that helps privately held companies to establish or expand their business in Boden. Their main assignment, as a partner of The Node Pole, is to promote and develop Boden as a destination of energy- intense establishments. Boden has a unique position of power supply – redundant, sustainable and free from interruptions. The local eco-system of constructive and positive suppliers makes it easy to join the on-going movement in Boden. www.bodenbusinessagency.com
