Digital Reef Turns to Vertical Farming to Reduce Data Centre Footprint in Partnership With Elevate Farms and Xange.com to Provide Digital Measurement, Reporting and Verification of Project’s Environmental Impact Within the Reef Origin Ecosystem

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Postmedia has not reviewed the content. by Business Wire Digital Reef Turns to Vertical Farming to Reduce Data Centre Footprint in Partnership With Elevate Farms and Xange.com to Provide Digital Measurement, Reporting and Verification of Project's Environmental Impact Within the Reef Origin EcosystemAuthor of the article:The collaboration leverages Elevate Farms’ proprietary vertical farming technology reducing water consumption, land usage and carbon emissions.THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLYSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman, and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESCreate an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one account.Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments.Enjoy additional articles per month.Get email updates from your favourite authors.THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK.Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one accountShare your thoughts and join the conversation in the commentsEnjoy additional articles per monthGet email updates from your favourite authorsSign In or Create an AccountLONDON & TORONTO — Elevate Farms Inc. and Digital Reef Ltd partnership supports mitigating environmental impact of global data centre expansion establishing a framework for Digital Reef’s infrastructure pipeline to support and utilize environmental assets generated by Elevate Farms’ high-yield, closed-loop vertical farming operations. Traditional agriculture supply chains are replaced with optimized indoor facilities significantly reducing food production carbon emissions, water waste and local land constraints.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Elevate Farms technology offers part of the solution to climate impact isolating food production from traditional agricultural farming variables saving over 95% of standard water requirements and significantly reducing farmland required for equivalent yields and logistical carbon.Get the latest headlines, breaking news and columns.By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of Top Stories will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try againDigital Reef CEO Piers Slater stated “Digital Reef embrace data centre growth and environmental accountability where Elevate joining our ecosystem integrates highly disruptive, resource-saving agricultural technology with our environmental strategy to mitigate industrial carbon building hyper-efficient infrastructure at scale to protect natural ecosystems.”Amin Jadavji, Elevate Farm CEO added “Our mission has always been to build a sustainable, scalable agricultural baseline using less land and water than ever thought imaginable and partnering Digital Reef creates a direct nexus between the computational demands of tomorrow and the foundational resource requirements of our planet facilitating digital expansion complimented with an automated near-zero-waste food supply model.”As part of the Reef Origin impact fund Xange.com are appointed to ensure data transparency employing digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (dMRV) protocols including energy and water consumption, carbon offsets and environmental assets produced by Elevate Farms’ – ensuring completely verifiable carbon and conservation accounting. Employing IoT technology at Elevate’s latest facility in the UAE the alliance between Elevate Farm, Digital Reef and Xange.com is, supported by several UAE universities, promoting food sovereignty globally alongside high level efficiency of land, water, energy and fertiliser resources.Elevate Farms Inc. ( www.elevate.farm) is a technology-driven vertical farming company committed to mitigating the climate realities of traditional agriculture. Utilizing proprietary automation, advanced photobiology, and ultra-precise climate controls, Elevate Farms produces high-density, nutrient-rich crops at a fraction of the environmental cost—saving substantial volumes of fresh water, minimizing land use, and eliminating chemical runoff from the global food chain.Digital Reef ( www.digital-reef.io), the digital infrastructure business of London, UK based Reef Origin is developing a global 3.3GW data centre pipeline delivering ecosystems co-locating sustainable digital, clean energy, food, water, industry, community and ecology infrastructure delivered against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Reef Origin ( www.reeforigin.com) is a sustainability focused global real estate, infrastructure and technology developer and investor with a pipeline of projects of $40B+ in enterprise value.Xange.com International Holding S.à r.l. ( www.xange.com) is a Luxembourg-based environmental intelligence software and market infrastructure company, serving governments and enterprises with digital MRV systems, market infrastructure solutions, sustainability reporting, and Article 6-aligned environmental market participation.Forward-looking statementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about project pipelines and the expected environmental outcomes of the agreement. These statements reflect current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties, including regulatory approvals, market conditions and project delivery. Actual results may differ materially. This press release is for information only and does not constitute an offer or invitation to invest.View source version on businesswire.com: This advertisement has not loaded yet.Notice for the Postmedia NetworkThis website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. 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