Sustainability Roundtable, a leader in consulting on best practices in more sustainable business, recognized Oracle as the Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable’s Outstanding Corporate Leader of 2013.Sustainability Roundtable (SR) recognized Oracle for this prestigious award due its leadership in developing and driving optimization efforts towards more sustainable real estate and operations globally. They recognized Oracle for its efforts in:
- Increasing energy, water, and materials productivity
- Driving data centers optimization
- Developing new products to further sustainability initiatives
- Focusing on employee engagement to help with sustainability projects
This past year, sustainability highlights within the Oracle organization include:
- Implementation of a facility-wide, Environmental Accounting and Reporting (EA&R) module to reduce Oracle's environmental impact and comply with associated regulations
- Oracle’s newest Utah Compute Facility (UCF), one of the most energy efficient data centers in the industry, uses a very innovative and breakthrough cooling solution that combines cold outdoor air with free humidification from IT equipment waste heat, xeriscape landscaping which nearly eliminates the need for irrigation, and a 20% reduction of the copper needed for power cables by employing higher voltage power
They also recognized Oracle’s setting of ambitious goals through 2016. These goalsinclude a 10% reduction in energy use per employee, a 6% improvement in power usage effectiveness in production data centers, a 15% reduction in potable water use per employee, and a 15% reduction in waste to landfill per employee.