Green IT made in Pader­born – West­fa­len­WIND IT GmbH & Co. KG was named the win­ner of the 2026 Ger­man Sus­taina­bi­lity Award for its wind­CORES brand. This award is con­side­red the hig­hest honor for exem­plary envi­ron­men­tal and social achie­ve­ments in busi­ness and society in Europe and reco­gni­zes solu­ti­ons that mea­sur­a­bly advance sus­tainable trans­for­ma­tion.​With this award, the jury reco­gni­zes a data cen­ter con­cept that intel­li­gently com­bi­nes digi­ta­liza­tion and the energy tran­si­tion and demons­tra­tes how high-per­for­mance IT and con­sis­tent cli­mate pro­tec­tion can go hand in hand.  “With our uni­que solu­tion, windCORES—data cen­ters in wind turbines—we’re demons­t­ra­ting how digi­ta­liza­tion, cli­mate pro­tec­tion, and data sove­reig­nty ...

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 ...

Ever-incre­asing volu­mes of data and the resul­ting rapid growth in com­pu­ting capa­city are lea­ding to ever-hig­her CO2 emis­si­ons. With its wind­CORES brand, West­fa­len­WIND has long since found a sus­tainable solu­tion to this chall­enge in the form of cli­mate-neu­tral data cen­ters housed within wind tur­bi­nes. Now ano­ther mile­stone has been rea­ched: The wind­CORES II faci­li­ties at the Huser Klee wind farm near Lich­tenau have been offi­ci­ally com­mis­sio­ned. These are multi-story data cen­ters loca­ted inside the tower of a wind turbine. The idea is simple: The electricity—usually sur­plus elec­tri­city that would other­wise go unused—is used where it is pro­du­ced in a cli­mate-neu­tral ...

Good news from Brussels: West­fa­len­WIND IT, a data cen­ter ope­ra­tor based in Pader­born, is a part­ner in a stra­te­gic and inno­va­tive Euro­pean rese­arch project.  The rese­arch pro­ject, titled “IPCEI — Next Gene­ra­tion Cloud Infra­struc­ture and Ser­vices (IPCEI CIS),” was initia­ted by seven mem­ber sta­tes (France, Ger­many, Hun­gary, Italy, the Net­her­lands, Pol­and, and Spain). Up to 1.2 bil­lion euros in public fun­ding has been allo­ca­ted to the pro­ject. An addi­tio­nal 1.4 bil­lion euros is expec­ted to come from pri­vate-sec­tor invest­ments. Under the IPCEI initia­tive, 19 companies—including small and medium-sized enterprises—will carry out 19 highly inno­va­tive projects.  “For us, par­ti­ci­pa­ting in this ...

Fede­ral govern­ment funds new pro­ject of the Uni­ver­sity of Pader­born with 2.5 mil­lion euros — “Im Bauch von Wind­rä­dern soll gerech­net werden” Zum Bei­trag

High-per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) has become an important method in many sci­en­ti­fic fields, such as drug and cli­mate rese­arch. Howe­ver, the data cen­tres with energy-inten­sive super­com­pu­ters release quite a bit of CO2. “Energy-opti­mi­sed super­com­pu­ter net­works through the use of wind energy” (ESN4NW): Behind this title is a new, nati­on­wide joint pro­ject led by the SICP — Soft­ware Inno­va­tion Cam­pus Pader­born at the Uni­ver­sity of Pader­born. In coope­ra­tion with the SICP mem­ber com­pany West­fa­len­WIND IT and their brand wind­CORES, the idea was born to deve­lop a new HPC infra­struc­ture with a sus­tainable con­cept. The Fede­ral Minis­try of Edu­ca­tion and Rese­arch (BMBF) is ...

At the invi­ta­tion of the West­fa­len­WIND Group, Tho­mas Kut­schaty, the SPD state chair­man and par­lia­men­tary group lea­der in the state par­lia­ment, visi­ted the energy town of Lich­tenau (Pader­born dis­trict) to find out about the situa­tion and pro­s­pects for wind energy. The muni­ci­pa­lity is regarded throug­hout the state as a prime exam­ple of how wind power expan­sion can be imple­men­ted with a high level of accep­tance in the muni­ci­pa­lity, local poli­tics and citizens. The par­ti­ci­pants first got to talk to Tho­mas Kut­schaty about the Lich­tenau suc­cess story in a rela­xed atmo­sphere at the trai­ning centre of Ener­con, Ger­many’s lar­gest manu­fac­tu­rer of ...

A large num­ber of posi­tive reac­tions and con­gra­tu­la­ti­ons from all over Ger­many have rea­ched the West­fa­len­WIND Group — which also includes wind­CORES — fol­lo­wing the appearance of our Mana­ging Direc­tor Johan­nes Lack­mann on the ZDF talk show “Mar­kus Lanz”. He dis­cus­sed the pro­blems with the energy tur­n­around with Fede­ral Eco­no­mics Minis­ter Robert Habeck, energy and con­s­truc­tion expert Lamia Mes­sari-Becker and host Mar­kus Lanz on the 31 Janu­ary edition. The rene­wa­ble energy tech­no­lo­gies are now mature and available, he said. If there were not a big “but”: “We are che­a­per than the fos­sil energy indus­try. Howe­ver, more fle­xi­ble tariffs and grid ...

You­Tuber Patrick Nie­der­mayer came across our wind­CORES con­cept through his actual job. He was so enthu­si­a­stic about the idea of buil­ding sus­tainable data cen­tres in wind tur­bi­nes that he imme­dia­tely made a video about it. We think it’s great! Zum Video

Since 2020, the TV strea­ming ser­vice pro­vi­der zat­too has been using our wind­CORES data centre in one of our wind tur­bi­nes. Due to the direct sup­ply of clean wind power, strea­ming cau­ses signi­fi­cantly less CO2 than would be the case in a usual data centre. This pro­ject is a real inno­va­tion and uni­que in the world. To the video