HPE first out the gate on sustainable server certification

New certification looks at full lifecycle of datacentre products

HPE has become the first vendor to have its servers certified for sustainability by TCO Certified, a global sustainability certification for IT products.

Two of HPE's ProLiant servers have met TCO Certified's "rigorous sustainability criteria", which cover the full lifecycle of the product, including supply chain responsibility, hazardous substances, and circular criteria promoting.

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Launched in 1992, TCO Certified has traditionally focused on office IT products including PCs, displays and projectors, but last year expanded its focus into the datacentre.

Its mission is to make IT hardware more sustainable than it is today, with CEO Soren Enholm sharing his concerns with CRN last year that the IT market had become "almost partly a fashion market".

TCO Certified's Product Finder reveals that HPE's ProLiant XL170r Gen10 and HPE ProLiant XL225n Gen10 Plus models are the first two servers to meet the "tough" criteria in TCO Certified for datacentre products.

"We expect more brands to follow," he said.

"The interest in our datacentre product categories is high, both from the industry looking to apply for TCO Certified for their products, and from the purchasing community asking for products with independently verified sustainability claims."

Enholm (pictured) stressed that TCO Certified spends more than 20,000 hours annually verifying products as well as the factories they are made in.

"We know that a mere self-declaration is not enough to drive change — product testing at independent test laboratories and factory inspections by independent auditors are critical," he said.