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Achieving carbon neutrality in digital infrastructure
materials equipment power
Enabling global carbon accounting and reduction in digital infrastructure
The iMasons Climate Accord is a coalition united on carbon reduction in digital infrastructure.
Our mandate is to achieve global carbon accounting of digital infrastructure to influence market-based decisions and drive the industry to achieve carbon neutrality.
We've never had more unity on a common cause. We don't have the luxury of time.
DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
MATURITY MODEL
Companies participating in the Climate Accord agree to an open standard and governance to report carbon impact in materials, products, and power across digital infrastructure.
The Digital Infrastructure Maturity Model is a standardized framework used to measure progress in reducing:
- embodied carbon in materials used to build data centers,
- embodied carbon of equipment deployed in data centers, and the
- hourly carbon intensity of source power used to operate data centers.
The goal is global carbon accounting for each unique data center location over its lifetime.
Participating companies will support a carbon label schema for products and data center buildings in conjunction with source power carbon-intensity tracking. All carbon data will be electronically accessible.
GOVERNING BODY
The Climate Accord coalition works towards the industry adoption of an open standard to report carbon in data center power, materials, and equipment and a maturity model to report participant progress.
The alignment is there. The biggest companies in the world are saying, 'We're in.'
KEY THEMES
INDUSTRY ALIGNMENT ON CARBON REDUCTION
COMMON METHODOLOGY FOR CARBON ACCOUNTING
COLLABORATION TO COMPOUND OUR IMPACT
BUYERS DRIVE MARKET BEHAVIOR
TRANSPARENCY
ACROSS ALL
ACROSS ALL
OUR STORY SO FAR
Executive Director Hired
Miranda Gardiner has 16+ years of experience, with extensive data center experience in green buildings, energy and water efficiency, and sustainable master plans and policies.
Working Group Chairs Appointed
Working Groups for Power, Materials and Equipment have been launched and chairs appointed.
Movers Program is Launched
The Movers program is launched in partnership with Aligned Data Centers as a channel for members to showcase their sustainability efforts.
Governing Body Expands
Digital Realty & Schneider Electric join the iMasons Climate Accord Governing Body serving two year terms.
Continued Growth
iMasons Climate Accord member companies reach 161, more than doubling in less than six weeks.
ICA Governing Body Meets
Meeting for the first time in Santa Clara, CA, the five founding ICA Governing Body members gathered to define the group’s structure, charter, and budget. The governing body includes AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and iMasons.
Official Launch
The historic iMasons Climate Accord is announced in Monaco amassing 73 founding companies in less than six weeks. With carbon offsets purchased by Pure Data Centers, iMasons creates the first carbon-free conference for our industry.
Global Industry Input
Recruitment continues for the launch of the iMasons Climate Accord with simultaneous working sessions in the USA, Spain, and Monaco.
The iMasons Climate Accord is Born
Six key themes from Chez Belady result in the creation of the iMasons Climate Accord uniting companies on carbon reduction in digital infrastructure.
Chez Belady
40 iMasons Advisory Council members came together at Christian Belady’s home to find one thing that they could do together as an industry to tackle climate change.
Defining Digital Infrastructure
If you can measure it, you can improve it. iMasons defines and sizes the Digital Infrastructure industry to establish a starting point to measure progress.
Earth Day 2020
iMasons launches digital infrastructure sustainability vision, "Every Click Improves the Future."