Context
A Swiss data hosting provider wanted to measure the environmental impact of its IS to integrate digital sustainability in its operations strategy and service offering.
Sector backdrop. Telecom operators sit at a paradox: their infrastructure enables digital growth that drives emissions, while the operators themselves are often early adopters of energy-efficiency programmes. A clear Sustainable IT baseline turns scattered initiatives into a defensible narrative.
Approach
- Full environmental audit using IT footprint and Sustainable IT maturity assessment (ISO 14040/44 + GHG Protocol Scope 3).
- Coverage of data centres, cooling, servers, storage and network.
- Energy optimisation and lifecycle improvement levers.
- Pragmatic roadmap adapted to local hosting specifics.
Why this matters
A baseline measurement is rarely the end of the story, it is the input that makes every subsequent decision (procurement, lifespan, cloud regions, application portfolio) defensible with numbers rather than opinions.
A few patterns came out of the engagement that tend to repeat across organisations of similar scale: the largest share of the footprint almost always lives in end-user devices, not in the data centre.
How the MIKUJY platform supported the work
The MIKUJY platform was used end-to-end to structure the engagement, host the data and consolidate results in dashboards the teams could revisit at any time.
More specifically, the Measure module powered the IT footprint and Sustainable IT maturity assessment, turning scattered inventories into a single comparable baseline.
MIKUJY consultants brought hands-on professional support throughout the engagement, facilitating workshops, validating data and helping translate the platform outputs into a concrete action plan.
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MIKUJY helps organisations turn Sustainable IT for data hosting providers into a measurable, governed and recognised Sustainable IT programme. Reach out to discuss your context and goals.