SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Green parkthe first and only provider of edge infrastructure as a service (IaaS) optimized for environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements, today announced the inaugural deployment of its data center in Córdoba Electric Cooperative. This data center, the first of its kind, has been purpose-built and optimized for sustainability, rapid deployment, and resilience in the toughest conditions. Legacy data centers take many years and millions of dollars to bring online and, in many cases, do not meet the needs of underserved and underserved communities. Greensparc has created the plan to bring this infrastructure to any part of the world with a smaller footprint, lower cost and faster installation.
Remote and rural communities rely on data centers that are hundreds of miles away, and service is easily disrupted by adverse weather conditions, fiber damage, and environmental factors. Without data centers that are much more local, communities like Cordova, Alaska, find themselves on the other side of a rapidly accelerating digital divide. Enter Greensparc.
Greensparc is he channel to see how infrastructure, cloud services and applications reach underserved and underserved markets. To address this urgent and growing need, Greensparc is partnering with leading technology providers, local stakeholders, and local electric utilities to rapidly deploy high-performance edge data centers in underserved and underserved communities. Greensparc’s approach provides its customers with the benefits of significantly lower energy costs, reduced latency, improved emissions impact and faster implementation time. Greensparc infrastructure is up and running within 90 days, while other traditional data centers can take years to build, and delivers an average of 30-40% TCO savings and up to 80% operating expense savings , all while maintaining computing capacity.
Within the span of 30 days, Greensparc installed this latest data center at the Humpback Creek Hydro Facility in Cordova, Alaska. Alaska’s newest data infrastructure is 100% renewable, powered by local hydroelectric plant, and capable of meeting the needs of major cloud service providers who need to extend services and applications to the hardest-to-reach populations and communities of the world. Greensparc’s relationship with HPE enables the delivery of flexible computing solutions suitable for any use case required in the region.
“HPE values Greensparc’s commitment to closing the digital divide in hard-to-reach communities,” said Ulrich Seibold, global vice president of HPE GreenLake Service Provider and Partner Sales, HPE. “HPE GreenLake’s comprehensive portfolio of solutions is ideally suited to delivering Greensparc’s IT infrastructure and cloud capabilities to communities in the toughest conditions and in any environment.”
“By working closely with local municipalities, tribal organizations, minority-serving institutions, and other underserved groups, our mission is to make equitable computing power a reality at scale, regardless of geography,” said Sam Enoka, director executive and co-founder of Greensparc. , who was born and raised in the North Pole, Alaska. “By providing Cordova Electric with the building blocks for a more sustainable, secure and connected future, Greensparc is opening access to new economic opportunities and technological services, an important step in helping local communities exercise greater agency over their own destinies. “.
“Greensparc has elevated Cordova, Alaska, from a remote community at risk of being left behind by next-generation technologies to a leading community at the intersection of sustainable energy, high-speed communications and transformative cloud computing. Greensparc’s IT infrastructure is not an advance; it’s a transformation,” said Clay Koplin, CEO of Cordova Electric Cooperative.
“Outlying communities like Cordova are at the forefront of unprecedented ecological transitions, with far-reaching social and economic impacts for their residents,” said Tommy Sheridan, associate director of the Alaska Blue Economy Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Greensparc’s innovative technology opens up great potential for the development and diversification of Cordova’s blue economy in ways that can be learned and duplicated elsewhere along the Alaska coast and beyond.”
As part of its ongoing commitment to bridging the digital divide, Greensparc plans to train and hire local workforce populations in the communities it serves, creating new employment opportunities.
Greensparc further enables leading cloud service providers (CSPs) as rural communities build their businesses, education and health systems, technology services and more on the applications they provide. By delivering cutting-edge infrastructure to communities like Cordova, Alaska, Greensparc enables CSPs to unlock cutting-edge markets and further expand into previously unserved and remote areas.
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About Greensparc
Greensparc is bridging the digital divide by delivering ESG-optimized edge infrastructure and powerful computing capacity to underserved and underserved markets. Greensparc offers utilities, government entities, and cloud service providers modular and scalable edge data center and cloud solutions, optimized for sustainability, rapid deployment, and resilience in the toughest conditions. Learn more: www.greensparc.com
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