EasyStreet buys water offsets for data center
By Erik Siemers, Business Journal staff writer
Business Journal staff writer
EasyStreet CEO Rich Bader speaks at the January ribbon-cutting ceremony at the company's new energy efficient data center.
EasyStreet Online Services Inc. this week said it is first data center operator in the world to invest in water restoration certificates, a program designed to offset the facility’s water consumption.
The Portland-based Bonneville Environmental Foundation launched the certificate program last fall.
The program allows those who consume water to return an amount of water equal to what they’ve used back to the environment. One certificate, which costs $1, represents 1,000 gallons of water restored to a river or stream.
So far, more than 17 million gallons of water have been restored to rivers and streams in Oregon and Montana through the program.
“Water is a critical element for cooling our new data center,” Rich Bader, CEO of Beaverton-based EasyStreet, said in a news release. “The investment in (water restoration certificates) enables us to maximize our environmental performance because we are supporting a program that delivers measurable environmental benefit.”
In January, EasyStreet opened its second data center, an energy efficient building designed to save 1.5-million kilowatt hours of electricity per year and minimize water consumption.
The company also purchases renewable energy offsets and has installed an underground rainwater reclamation tank to be used as a water source for data center’s cooling system.
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