About The Hub
Led by APL, Danfoss, Data4, Google, Microsoft, Schneider Electric, and Vertiv, the Hub de-risks innovation by removing technical, commercial, regulatory, and financial risks.
CROSS-SECTOR, PAN-EUROPEAN APPROACH.
The data center industry faces challenges that cannot be solved by individual corporations alone.
Lowering energy consumption, increasing efficiency, heat reuse and grid balancing, back up energy supply, and security issues all require a systemic approach to be solved and to secure a bright future for data centers in Europe.
The Net Zero Innovation Hub for Data Centers unites leaders of the data center industry to accelerate the deployment of advanced net zero solutions. By connecting the European data center industry with the energy and utilities sectors, we accelerate the collective journey towards net zero.
Through a unique and structured collaborative innovation methodology, its goal is to support sustainable data center growth while enabling the transition toward a net-zero future.
About Net Zero Innovation Hub
Data centers are facing increased public scrutiny and political awareness. More demands and legislation is expected over the coming years, that will influence the development and operation of data centers dramatically.
The Hub offers a joint setup for European data center operators and suppliers to address key challenges in a systematized methodology, scale the solutions to the whole industry, and present them to the public. Thereby facilitating a faster way to net zero for the industry.
Vision & Mission
Our Vision
To enable data center industry growth with a positive impact on economy, environment, and society.
We envision data centers operating 24/7 on clean power with net zero or negative GHG emissions, zero or positive water usage, and a positive impact on local communities
Our Mission
Be the collaborative place where competitiors jointly address issues which cannot be solved individually
Bring together data center operators, solutions providers, innovators, start-ups, R&D, academia, regulators, project developers and investors to de-risk innovation
De-risk innovatiove solutions ready to scale-up in the competiive market environment
WHAT WE DO
We operate in the "collaborative zone" selecting problems that are difficult to solve by indvidual companies.
We align challenges and industry solutions requirements.
We identify and select innovative solutions.
We validate innovative solutions at scale.
We hand over the de-risked, ready to scale up innovative solutions to the competitive zone for commercial lift-off.
How we work with Innovation
The AI-era requires a new approach to enabling innovation at scale.
The Net Zero Innovation Hub approach sets itself apart by developing and executing collaborative projects which remove technology, commercial, financial, and regulative risks.
The Net Zero Innovation Hub de-risks innovation by removing risks related to technology, off-take, business models, regulation, and funding.
The NZIH Process aggregates and standardizes requirements of the data center industry leaders, identifies innovative solutions and executes validation pilot projects at scale, leveraging public and private investments.
This approach aims to reduce the risks for innovators, developers, and investors, thus resolving the catch-22 situation between commercial projects and investments, ensuring the investments necessary to elevate the innovation speed and scale required in the AI-era.
HISTORY
With the goal of speeding up common solutions for the green transition of data centers, the Net Zero Innovation Hub was launched in Fredericia in September 2023.
The Innovation Hub was established as a neutral platform, where the data center industry and the surrounding ecosystems can come together and find solutions to common challenges.
