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Green, the leading Swiss data center platform, today announces the recent completion of a landmark refinancing with a pool of international and Swiss banks, including a capex facility, designed to finance the expansion of the business.

With its new corporate identity, Green is demonstrating its commitment to a colorful digital future. The company aims to use its creativity and vision to move things forward. In the interview, CEO Roger Süess explains how he and his team shape the future.

At the beginning of 2020, Heidrun Meier Jehle took up her position as Chief Human Resources Officer at Green. She wants to contribute to a culture of trust that supports employees individually and strengthens the company's innovative power.

Within 25 years the Swiss internet provider Green became an established data hub: Green CEO Roger Süess explains how the company became a driving force in digital Switzerland.

In its 25 years, Green’s coined the Swiss ICT landscape with its visions and innovations. These milestones show a world full of potential – a potential Green has made good use of.

According to recent reports from SRF and Netzwoche, there’s a data center that originally had its grand opening scheduled for 2018 but had its handover pushed back to late 2020. The commissioning of another data center is being postponed from 2022 to 2028 due to difficulties finding a location.

"Computerworld" references the study by the research and consulting company ISG (Information Service Group). In this study, Green is positioned as a leader in the Swiss colocation market. We ask how we achieved this position and what measures we are taking to defend it.

The data center market is on the move and so is Green. Having already built two data centers and an office building on our campus in Lupfig, we are continuing to invest. Thanks to the good order situation, we will be building a new, ultra-modern data center with 3,600 m2 of pure data center floor space starting in September 2018.

Data warehouses consume a lot of power. That’s why energy efficiency plays a key role in data centers. Cooling is one of the major power consumers. It ensures that IT equipment can work at the ideal temperature. We show you how cooling in the data center rooms can be improved and how you can save energy at the same time.

Data centers need a lot of energy to operate all the equipment and systems. They have an annual electricity consumption of 1,661 Gwh, which is equivalent to 2.8% of Switzerland’s entire electricity consumption. Both from an ecological and economical standpoint, it is worthwhile to measure and optimize a data center’s energy consumption. The savings potential, especially for older installations, is substantial. Since electricity costs make up the lion’s share of the operating costs, each…