Start Campus’s SINES Project Progresses Towards Operational Phase of Green Giant Data Center Launch
The pioneering Green Giant data center begins the move-in process for its first hyperscaler clients
- Start Campus begins the commissioning phase for the first set of clients for the initial stage of the project;
- First contracts signed: Hyperscaler customers and international connectivity clients include EllaLink, EXA, DE-CIX, and Colt;
When fully complete, the total campus will have up to 495 MW of capacity across six buildings by 2028 with the first building, NEST, completing construction in 2024.
SINES, PORTUGAL – October 2, 2023 – Start Campus, the company responsible for the development of 100% green energy ecosystems in Sines, Portugal, announces today that it has welcomed its first hyperscaler clients for the initial setup phase at its NEST building, the company’s first phase data hall. Highlights of this monumental event were showcased during a visit from Portuguese Minister of Infrastructure, João Galamba, who toured the 100% sustainable campus powered by 24×7 renewable energy on September 29, 2023.
In advance of the upcoming operational launch of the Start Campus data center, the onboarding process for the new hyperscalers is underway, including access to unique and diverse global network connectivity solutions. The NEST is scheduled to be fully operational by March 2024 and will deliver an initial 15 MW of power, setting the stage for a capacity of 495 MW across six buildings. When live, it will become one of Europe’s largest green hyperscale ecosystems. Start Campus projects its facility will create up to 1,200 direct, highly skilled jobs and 8,000 indirect jobs by 2028, contributing to the local economy and community.
“This moment represents a very important milestone for Start Campus and the SINES Project,” says Afonso Salema, CEO of Start Campus. “We are developing a dynamic sustainability-driven ecosystem that will place Portugal at the center of the rapidly growing international data market. We’re challenging what’s deemed possible in our industry, so we are particularly pleased with the entry of the first clients who resonate with our values, decisively reducing the carbon footprint of this industry.”
The SINES Project is poised to become one of the first and largest renewable energy-driven data center campuses in the world and is strategically positioned to act as a gateway between Europe, Africa and the Americas. To date, Start Campus has made significant strides by establishing network infrastructure partnerships with industry leaders like EllaLink, EXA Infrastructure, DE-CIX, and COLT. According to Afonso, “These alliances represent a pivotal milestone in our journey to enhance connectivity and drive digital innovation.”
The location of the SINES Project enables Portugal to provide international access via transatlantic cable landings, multiple terrestrial network routes and the world’s largest Internet Exchange operator. Major subsea cable players such as Medusa, and EllaLink’s Olisipo and Fortaleza-Sines cable systems have already identified the area as the emerging “Atlantic Hub,” ushering in a new era of global connectivity that does not rely on the FLAP-D markets.
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About Start Campus
Start Campus is responsible for the development of the SINES Project, a Hyperscaler data center campus with a capacity of up to 495 MW in Sines, an investment of up to €3.5 billion. It will be one of the largest data center campuses in Europe and meets the growing demand from large international technology companies. It will create up to 1,200 direct highly skilled jobs and 8,000 indirect jobs by 2028. It is located in Sines and will benefit from all the strategic advantages such as seawater cooling systems, access to the high voltage electrical grid, connectivity through the connection to high capacity international networks of fiber optic cables with North America, Africa and South America. SINES Project will be one of the largest data center ecosystems with 100% green energy at competitive prices in a premium location in Europe, which is the perfect gateway to Europe and the world.
To learn more about Start Campus, visit www.startcampus.pt
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Lisbon, Portugal – July 24, 2023 – Start Campus, an organization developing cutting-edge sustainable data center services, announces that Fabiola Bordino, Head of Sustainability, Communication & Marketing, will be a guest on the esteemed webinar series Sustainability Superheroes, produced by AiDash. In this Sustainability Superheroes episode, Start Campus’s Fabiola Bordino will share the best ways to create a circular economy within big industries, ensuring sustainability efforts can not only save money but also boost profits. The episode will be live streamed at 2 p.m. BST/ 9 a.m. ET on July 25th.
In this session, Fabiola will cover the top three sustainability practices that save and earn money, practical strategies for applying circular economy principles to upfront design and future-proofing businesses, and the best way to build productive relationships with local communities.
Start Campus is dedicated to becoming a leading force in sustainability by building 100% green energy data center ecosystems, a much-needed asset when it comes to the rapid expansion of data industry across the globe. The company is on the cutting edge when it comes to utilizing “circular economy,” a model that aims to maximize resource efficiency and minimize waste by keeping materials and products in use for as long as possible. Start Campus’s SINES Project applies circular economy with their ocean water-cooling system, which both uses natural seawater and repurposed pre-cooled seawater, minimizing waste and giving Start Campus negligible water consumption.
When Start Campus set out in 2020 to be fully carbon free by 2028, they decided to take a novel P&L approach to sustainability. Now, they are taking the approaches to savings and profits they used within their own sustainable data center initiatives and applying them to other industries. The challenge is to move beyond simply checking traditional sustainability boxes.
Success means dismantling linear economy (“take-make-waste”) operations and replacing them with circular economy practices that reduce waste, recirculate resources, and regenerate nature. These are the processes that can reduce costs and make sustainability a profit center.
In Portugal, the Sines region has the highest potential to host a high capacity/ high density data processing infrastructure with reduced impact on the community and the planet, through the use of environmentally sustainable solutions and a location in an industrial location that allows the conversion of industrial infrastructures. Fabiola will address how Start Campus puts circular economy into action, and how the data center industry can benefit from this model.
WHEN: July 25, 2023 | 2 p.m. BST | 9 a.m. ET
WHAT: Webinar: The Circular Economy
WHO: Fabiola Bordino, Head of Sustainability, Communication & Marketing
LOCATION: Online
To learn more about Start Campus, visit: https://www.startcampus.pt/en/
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About Start Campus
Start Campus is responsible for the development of the SINES project, a Hyperscale Data Centre campus with a capacity of 495MW in Sines, in an investment of up to 3.5 billion euros. It will be one of the largest data center campuses in Europe and meets the growing demand from large international technology companies. It will create up to 1,200 direct highly skilled jobs and 8,000 indirect jobs by 2028. It is located in Sines and will benefit from all the strategic advantages such as cooling systems with sea water, access to the high-voltage electricity grid, connectivity through the connection to international high-capacity networks of fiber optic cables with North America, Africa and South America. SINES project will be one of the largest data center ecosystems with 100% green energy at competitive prices in a premium location in Europe, which is the perfect gateway to Europe and the world.
About Sustainability Superheroes
Sustainability Superheroes is a monthly virtual live event series with real conversations featuring leaders in sustainability efforts. Experts discuss top trends, challenges, and frameworks — and most importantly — how they navigate it all to help create a greener, cleaner, more sustainable future.
Lisbon, July 13, 2023 – Kyndryl (NYSE: KD, the world’s largest provider of Information Technology (IT) infrastructure services, and Start Campus, the company responsible for developing the SINES Project — a 495 MW hyperscale data center development — have signed an agreement for Kyndryl to provide design, implementation and management of Information Technology (IT) security and data network services for Start Campus’s SINES Project operations.
Kyndryl will be monitoring the critical IT and real-time Operational Technology (OT) environments present on Start Campus’ data center campus. Monitoring systems and protocols will be implemented, making it possible to track the operation of these essential and critical environments for large-scale data processing in real-time. This way, it will be possible to identify irregularities, failures, or security threats, ensuring the protection and full operation of the IT/OT systems on campus.
“Constant and comprehensive monitoring of the entire data ecosystem plays a key role in maintaining the integrity, availability and security of critical digital infrastructure, contributing to the efficiency and success of SINES Project operations, one of the largest hyperscale data center developments in Europe,” says Afonso Salema, CEO of Start Campus. “This partnership with Kyndryl, which we are very proud of, puts our project at the forefront in terms of security at a time when cybersecurity is of critical and central importance.”
The new services provided by Kyndryl will allow Start Campus to take advantage of expertise in its Security and Resiliency and Network and Edge practices.
Start Campus expects this partnership with Kyndryl to strengthen its positioning as an international data company with a focus on Europe, the Americas and Africa. Kyndryl has expertise in offering international services and prowess in various markets across the globe due to its geographical location and will aid Start Campus in expanding its sustainability goals across the world. Both companies see a huge opportunity to, by working together, elevate both business strategy and results.
“The project’s environmental nature, with the goal of providing revolutionary and innovative data center technology powered by 100% renewable energy, brought even more motivation from Kyndryl’s teams to participate in this project,” says Paulo Coelho, Practices Leader at Kyndryl Portugal.
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Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world’s largest provider of IT infrastructure services, serving thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
About Start Campus
Start Campus is responsible for the development of the SINES project, a Hyperscaler data center campus with a capacity of up to 495 MW in Sines, an investment of up to €3.5 billion. It will be one of the largest data center campuses in Europe and meets the growing demand from large international technology companies. It will create up to 1,200 direct highly skilled jobs and 8,000 indirect jobs by 2028. It is located in Sines and will benefit from all the strategic advantages such as seawater cooling systems, access to the high voltage electrical grid, connectivity through the connection to high capacity international networks of fiber optic cables with North America, Africa and South America. SINES 4.0 will be one of the largest data center ecosystems with 100% green energy at competitive prices in a premium location in Europe, which is the perfect gateway to Europe and the world.
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