Iron Mountain’s Path to 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy: Automated Hourly Matching at Scale
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Background & Goal
Iron Mountain is a global leader in secure storage, information management, and data center infrastructure. The company supports mission-critical workloads for highly regulated customers, operating a large, distributed footprint of data centers and facilities that run around the clock. That scale and uptime requirement make electricity one of the most material operational levers and demand trustworthy, granular energy data. Iron Mountain targets carbon-free electricity for every facility, every hour, by 2040. Hitting that target requires verifiable data at hourly granularity and a single source of truth for electricity use, contracts, and certificates across countries.
The Challenge
To progress from annual claims to true 24/7 CFE, Iron Mountain needed to connect metering data, procurement contracts, and certificates to hourly load in one place. The team also needed clear coverage analytics that could guide strategy across countries and assets. The team had challenges with:
- Fragmented metering data across multiple sites and vendors
- Limited visibility into how clean energy covers hourly load
- Manual, time-consuming reporting for internal and external stakeholders
- Need to evaluate strategy at portfolio level, then drill into regions and assets
The Solution
Flexidao implemented an hourly energy data platform as the single source of truth. We integrated metering, contracts, and energy attribute certificates, then layered analytics to quantify hourly coverage and simplify audit-ready reporting. Leaders get portfolio context, operators get fast drill-downs to the asset level.What the team gets:
- Unified data model: Metering, contract terms, and certificates in one place
- Hourly matching: Coverage analytics that show how load is served by clean energy, hour by hour
- Drill-down filters: Move from portfolio view to country, region, or individual asset in a click
- Operational KPIs: Dashboards for tracking, monitoring, and audit-ready reporting
Results
The platform is live across Iron Mountain’s UK portfolio, creating reliable hourly coverage insight and tighter contract visibility. The rollout model is now being replicated to accelerate adoption across Europe.
- UK portfolio live: All UK sites onboarded, spanning data centers and offices
- Stronger contract visibility: Clear line of sight from contracts and certificates to hourly load
- Scale-out path: Expansion to the Netherlands in progress, with additional European countries planned by year end
"Flexidao’s platform will be really what enables us to continue to expand our 24/7 CFE pursuit, and understand where we are at in that process."
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