GE Data Center Achieves LEED Platinum Status

General Electric, a Boardwalk Sustainability Leader company, showed the investors why it is worthy of inclusion in this highly-selective list.  The company's new data center has set new standards for energy efficiency, materials re-use, local sourcing and waste recycling.

Only 6 percent of all LEED-certified buildings have achieved Platinum certification. Considering that GE’s new building is a data centre in Kentucky only exemplifies how impressive this latest award is.

A recent McKinsey study estimates that CO2 emissions from data centres will quadruple in the coming years, exceeding emissions from the airlines industry by 2020.

One GE exec sums it up: "Our new high-efficiency data center will help us manage energy costs so we can compete in a global marketplace.”

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