Geothermal energy produced in Larderello (PI) will be the beating heart of Italy's first environmentally sustainable data center. Rising in the Tuscan hills will be the new completely “zero” CO2-impact complex. Integrated engineering company In-Site, which specializes in the design and construction of complex infrastructures in which technology and attention to energy efficiency take a central role, will work on its project.

Larderello, a hamlet in the municipality of Pomarance (PI), is among the world's largest producers of geothermal energy, and it is here that this type of energy was first used industrially in Italy. In the new Data Center project, this renewable and clean source of energy-derived from the Earth's natural heat-will be used both to cool server rooms and to power servers and primary and backup devices, lowering the high temperatures that this equipment reaches for data processing, all at much lower costs than those generated by using traditional electricity.

An Italian, ambitious project, promoted by innovative start-up Geoveda, a 100% company of the Ulixes SGR Fund, which aims to build Green Data Centers, cooled and powered entirely by renewable energy, and rent or resell these spaces to IT operators to host data servers and applications. There are three phases to the entire project: the first, worth about five million euros, will kick off soon and will see In-Site committed to the project in the coming months.

“We are proud to be an active part of what will be the first green Data Center in Italy and to contribute our knowledge and expertise to bring to life a system that, once fully operational, can also be exported to other geothermal areas,” explains Pietro Matteo Foglio, CEO & Founder of In-Site. “Industry today is required to transform its operations with a view to sustainability. The same applies to Data Centers: we are facing a revolution that must not only be digital but also ecological.”