Our local committment is solid

We are committed to our local communities. Around our biggest site in Falun, we have advanced significantly during 2024 in three projects that improve local development.

District heating piping has been laid to a new real estate area near EcoDataCenter 1. We contributed to the construction of a new substation to strengthen the municipality’s grid capabilities. And we started redirecting water from a decommissioned reservoir in Falun, alleviating pressure on the utility water system. Together, these projects represent more than 210 MSEK in local investments.

In total, our local capital expenditures for 2024 amount to 55 % of our total spend, where we define local as companies with headquarters in the same region as our data centers.

We use local labor and suppliers as much as possible, reducing transportation and thereby carbon footprint while growing the economy. Investing locally, be it people or materials, translates to the development of jobs, supports small businesses, and helps build stronger communities.

Another part of our commitment to local communities is to ensure a minimal impact on the land we use.

We do environmental impact assessments as well as an inventory of nature conservation value for all sites and developments, and we have started a project to quantify biodiversity at new sites.

Here, we take help from external experts to assess the best compensation for our negative biodiversity impacts.

A small but telling example comes from our newly acquired site in Borlänge. Together with the municipality and a local high school, we are building and installing new nesting boxes for bats and common swifts. Caring for communities means we need to help the smaller beings around us to thrive.