Hitachi Vantara’s FY2024 Sustainability Report highlights the company’s key achievements in FY2024, including ENERGY STAR certification for multiple storage solutions, the expansion of global greenhouse gas (GHG) management and new sustainability tools that help customers track energy and carbon usage.
Sheila Rohra, CEO of Hitachi Vantara, said. “Our focus remains on highlighting how sustainability, particularly in the data centre, can be both a key driver of innovation and a business differentiator – from reducing carbon emissions to helping businesses achieve energy savings, enhance operational efficiency and meet their broader sustainability goals.”
Key highlights
The report highlights that several Hitachi Vantara storage solutions earned ENERGY STAR certification, holding the top two rankings for the most energy-efficient storage systems in the ENERGY STAR NVSS Disk Online 4 category. The Virtual Storage Platform One Block (VSP One Block) has secured the highest spot.
Moreover, its solar-powered distribution centre in the Netherlands generates approximately 30% of the electricity consumption from on-site solar production.
Currently, 40% by weight of the materials used in the bezels of Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One Block and File storage models come from post-consumer recycled plastics. The company plans to increase this recycled content to 50% by 2030, demonstrating a continued commitment to sustainability.
In FY2024, Hitachi Vantara consumed 78,211 MWh of energy, with 90% of that from grid electricity and 35% from renewable sources, such as solar and wind. Energy consumption was reduced by 50%, and power usage effectiveness (PUE) improved from 1.6 to 1.3 following a 2024 data centre refresh at its Denver facility.
By 2030, Hitachi Vantara aims to achieve carbon neutrality for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, and a higher level of carbon neutrality across its value chain by FY2050.
