The team at Pader­born-based West­fa­len­WIND IT GmbH & Co. KG has every reason to cele­brate once again: Their wind­CORES have been hono­red with this year’s Dat­a­cen­ter Stra­tegy Award. This pres­ti­gious indus­try award reco­gni­zes inno­va­tive approa­ches and stra­te­gies in data cen­ter ope­ra­ti­ons and is pre­sen­ted during the expert con­fe­rence of the same name, the Dat­a­cen­ter Stra­tegy Summit. 

wind­CORES was nomi­na­ted in the “Sus­taina­bi­lity” cate­gory and appar­ently pro­vi­ded exactly the right ans­wer to the industry’s most pres­sing ques­tion at the moment: How do we recon­cile the mas­sive expan­sion of IT infra­struc­ture requi­red by AI appli­ca­ti­ons with the issue of sus­taina­bi­lity? During his short pre­sen­ta­tion, wind­CORES Mana­ging Direc­tor Dr. Fiete Dub­berke impres­sed the audi­ence with his uni­que con­cept of data cen­ters in wind tur­bi­nes and won over the audi­ence in the sub­se­quent public vote. 

“This award is a spe­cial reco­gni­tion from the com­mu­nity and shows that our solu­tion is viewed as sus­tainable IT among experts,” Dub­berke said with delight at the high-pro­file awards cerem­ony in Bad Hom­burg, explai­ning that the wind tur­bi­nes not only pro­vide suf­fi­ci­ent space for the ser­vers but also sup­ply the elec­tri­cal infra­struc­ture, fiber-optic cabling, and green elec­tri­city directly from the wind tur­bine above. “Here, state-of-the-art data cen­ter tech­no­logy and sus­taina­bi­lity are uni­quely com­bi­ned,” said Dub­berke, sum­ma­ri­zing the inno­va­tive wind­CORES con­cept, which has been imple­men­ted in wind farms in Lichtenau.