Iron Mountain, which owns and operates massive data centers, has joined the Climate Group’s EV100 initiative and committed to making 100% of its company cars and 50% of its vans into electric vehicles by 2030.
Initially, Iron Mountain will convert 10% of its worldwide fleet to EV by 2025. The company overall operates a worldwide fleet of over 5,000 cars, vans and trucks has committed to transitioning 100% of company cars and 50% of vans to EVs by 2030, as part of EV100.
“As part of RE100, Iron Mountain committed to 100% renewable electricity worldwide. We have already achieved 80% from initiatives, including powering our data centers entirely with renewable energy," Iron Mountain President and CEO William Meaney said. "Joining the EV100 advances that commitment and furthers our goal to reach net-zero emissions. We’ve already reduced our absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 60% since 2016 and electrifying our global fleet will accelerate that while allowing us to continue to secure a sustainable future for our customers.”
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Fleet electrification was started by the firm a few years ago. At the time, the firm added 24 electric vans in the UK and continental Europe. Iron Mountain has ordered another 25 electric vans, which will be used in London, Germany, the Netherlands and North America. Within North America, these electric vans will initially serve customers in Illinois, Pennsylvania and California.
Iron Mountain is a data storage, lifecycle IT asset management and information management service with more than 225,000 customers worldwide.
EV100 is a global initiative by The Climate Group bringing together forward-looking companies committed to accelerating the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), to make electric transport ‘the new normal’ by 2030.
Other companies which have joined the EV100 initiative include BT, IKEA, Unilever, EDF and Heathrow Airport.
