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Recently, natural and environmental issues have become major social issues at local and global scales. Based on the corporate philosophy "to create new systems and values using information technology and contribute to the realization of a prosperous, happy society," I-NET is proactively working on efforts to minimize the impact of its business activities on the environment, aiming to pass down a better environment to the next generation, as a company that is a public organ of society.
The I-NET Group has established governance policies and an execution structure to address environmental issues including climate change.
This allows us to deliberate and decide on important policies and measures for responding to climate change, leading to improvements and new initiatives.
In April 2022, the Group established an SDGs Promotion Office within I-NET to further advance ESG management.
We have also established an SDGs Promotion Council chaired by our Representative Director and Executive President.
The Council meets twice a year to report on and discuss SDG activities, working actively on SDG initiatives across the Group.
The SDGs Promotion Council discusses and decides on initiatives, risks, opportunities, policies, and disclosures related to climate change. It also monitors progress and reports resolutions and progress status to the Board of Directors.
The SDGs Promotion Office operates the SDGs Promotion Council and conducts specific examinations of group-wide initiatives, risks, opportunities, policies, and disclosures. It then extends resolutions into business activities through each business division and follows up on their implementation.
Beginning on January 1, 2024, renewable energy-derived electricity generated on the rooftops of the i-Missions Park Kazo and i-Missions Park Yoshikawa Minami facilities in Saitama Prefecture has been utilized for a portion of the electricity used at the1st Data Center.This is part of the off-site PPA service provided by Itochu Enex Co.
Electricity generated from renewable energy sources significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions compared to that generated from fossil fuels, and also has a smaller impact on the environment. We are actively working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by switching to renewable energy sources for the electricity consumed by our data centers.
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1.i-Missions Park Kazo Solar Power Plant
2.i-Missions Park Yoshikawa Minami Solar Power Plant
We have introduced electric vehicles (EVs) in order to reduce our environmental impact and work for a sustainable future. We have also installed EV charging facilities in the parking lot of our data center. By using these vehicles for data center-related operations, we are practicing environment-friendly business activities.
In managing data centers, consideration for the environment is an important initiative.
I-NET's data centers strive to conserve electricity by eco-friendly measures using the natural power of water and wind.
I-NET has also acquired the Rank A of Yokohama City Environment-conscious Building System (CASBEE Yokohama).
We have achieved eco-friendly data centers with increased environmental considerations for the environment along with durability.
I-NET's data centers are located on high grounds. The wind blows underneath the platforms on which HVAC outdoor units are placed even during the summer.
We increase the operational efficiency of the outdoor units, reducing the electricity consumption of HVAC units by utilizing this wind and having the outdoor units take in cool air even during the summer.
We design concrete rooftops with inclines from the design stage, achieving cooling effects by running water on the concrete when reflections are strong in the summer. We control the electricity consumption of HVAC units by implementing efficient HVAC operation.
The interiors of the colocation rooms feature flat ceilings with a floor height of 5m, which was the first in Japan at the time of construction. We reduce the electrical load of the HVAC units by fluently and softly circulating the air toward HVAC units along the ceiling.
Energy recovery ventilators and air-cooled packaged air conditioners (PAC) are installed in I-NET's data centers. Energy recovery ventilators exchange heat when ventilating the exhausted air of colocation rooms with the incoming outdoor air, ensuring that the outdoor air temperature is close to that of inside the rooms. This contributes to reducing HVAC electricity consumption according to the seasons.
I-NET Corp. built the environmental management system in the Data Centers (the 1st Data Center, the 2nd Data Center), acquired the certification of ISO14001 and has tried to reduce the environmental load.
As the natural environmental problem in the community and the earth becomes severe and detrimental topics these days, preservation of the global environment becomes urgent and pressing challenges common to human being. The strongly-built and high level secured Data Centers of our company operate as information infrastructure of industry and the society without stopping for 24 hours a day, for 365 days a year.
We considered minimizing the influence to the preservation of environment as one of our social responsibilities through the operation of our Data Centers and established the environmental policy to carry out the activities for environment load reduction.
In August 2023, we endorsed the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The TCFD recommends that companies disclose their climate change initiatives across the four areas of governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets.
The TCFD Consortium was established as a forum for discussion of effective corporate disclosure of information and its use by financial institutions and others in making appropriate investment decisions. Companies and financial institutions that advocate the TCFD recommendations work together to pursue initiatives.
