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title: South Pole meets ungleich
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pub_date: 2020-06-01
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author: ungleich
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twitter_handle: ungleich
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Penguins push sustainability forward together
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## Where penguins meet
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Do you know where penguins live? Probably all of us assume that they
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live at the South Pole. That is correct. And it is [a really
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fascinating story how penguins
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meet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Penguins). If you
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haven't seen the movie, we can highly recommend it!
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But did you know that penguins also live and meet at other places? For
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instance [in Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_penguin).
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Or in the case of the penguin companies [South
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Pole](https://www.southpole.com/) and [ungleich](https://ungleich.ch):
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in Switzerland.
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This blog post is about how penguins and ethical values brought South
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Pole and ungleich together.
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## Who is South Pole?
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South Pole is a team of passionate sustainability experts with its
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headquarter in Zürich. South Pole specializes in green investments,
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climate actions for businesses, climate risk assessment and, renewable
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energy.
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Started as a handful of people with great ideas back in 2006, now
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their offices are spread over 30 countries, including Singapore,
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London, Amsterdam, Sydney, Stockholm, and more. And most importantly:
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their mascot is a penguin, and the team calls themselves penguins.
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Sustainability, Switzerland, penguins?! Instant love for us.
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We recommend that you take a look at [the South Pole
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blog](https://www.southpole.com/blog) that covers inspiring
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projects such as forest conservation, wild animal protection, clean
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water project for local communities, and many more.
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## Sustainability at ungleich
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A few years ago ungleich started building data centers in
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[the Canton of Glarus in Switzerland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_of_Glarus).
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This valley does not only offer a gorgeous view, but was the home of
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the weaving industry for more than a century. And it's our luck and
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privilege to build on top of this heritage.
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Our focus is on re-using and re-modeling buildings from this
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time. Many factory halls in Glarus also come with on-site hydropower
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plants, which allows us to run servers on 100% renewable, locally
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produced power.
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Not only do we re-use old buildings, but with recycled hardware,
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we were all in for creating a data center that is
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as sustainable as possible.
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When we started this project it was not 100% clear for us what kind of
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people would be interested in this kind of hosting.
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More and more we are realising that how we started and continued our
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journey has actually brought us the best kind of people. The kind
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who shares our visions of sustainable technology and understands the
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value of what we do. So such was the case for team ungleich and team
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South Pole. We love that those whom we provide our services to have
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the same mission as we do. Enabling and supporting like-minded people
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with what we have built has been a really exciting journey for our
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team.
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## Continuing our work on sustainability together
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South Pole is offering a variety of
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[Sustainability
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Solutions](https://www.southpole.com/sustainability-solutions) in all
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kinds of areas. At ungleich we focus on sustainable hosting in the
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[Data Center Light](https://datacenterlight.ch/), the renewable
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energy-powered data center in the Alps. And we are proud to say that
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South Pole hosts data in the Data Center Light.
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Together we can make a change for a better world.
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## Join the discussion
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If you like to discuss sustainability topics, we invite you to get in
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touch with us:
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* [Get in touch with South Pole](https://www.southpole.com/contacts)
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* [Get in touch with ungleich](/u/contact/)
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* [Join the online chat for sustainability](https://chat.with.ungleich.ch)
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