title: Data Center Light welcomes South Pole
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Penguins push sustainability forward together
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## Where penguins meet

Do you know where penguins live? Probably all of us assume that they
live at the South Pole. That is correct. And it is [a really
fascinating story how penguins
meet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Penguins). If you
haven't seen the movie, we can highly recommend it!

But did you know that penguins also live and meet at other places? For
instance [in Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_penguin).

Or in the case of the penguin companies [South
Pole](https://www.southpole.com/) and [ungleich](https://ungleich.ch):
in Switzerland.

This blog post is about how penguins and ethical values brought South
Pole and ungleich together.

## Who is South Pole?

South Pole is a team of passionate sustainability experts with its
headquarter in Zürich. South Pole specializes in green investments,
climate actions for businesses, climate risk assessment and, renewable
energy.

Started as a handful of people with great ideas back in 2006, now
their offices are spread over 30 countries, including Singapore,
London, Amsterdam, Sydney, Stockholm, and more. And most importantly:
their mascot is a penguin, and the team calls themselves penguins.

Sustainability, Switzerland, penguins?! Instant love for us.

We recommend that you take a look at [the South Pole
blog](https://www.southpole.com/blog) that covers inspiring
projects such as forest conservation, wild animal protection, clean
water project for local communities, and many more.

![](/u/image/southpole-projects.jpg)

## Sustainability at ungleich

A few years ago ungleich started building data centers in
[the Canton of Glarus in Switzerland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_of_Glarus).
This valley does not only offer a gorgeous view, but was the home of
the weaving industry for more than a century. And it's our luck and
privilege to build on top of this heritage.

Our focus is on re-using and re-modeling buildings from this
time. Many factory halls in Glarus also come with on-site hydropower
plants, which allows us to run servers on 100% renewable, locally
produced power.

Not only do we re-use old buildings, but with recycled hardware,
we were all in for creating a data center that is
as sustainable as possible.

When we started this project it was not 100% clear for us what kind of
people would be interested in this kind of hosting.

![](/u/image/datacenter-location.jpg)

More and more we are realising that how we started and continued our
journey has actually brought us the best kind of people. The kind
who shares our visions of sustainable technology and understands the
value of what we do.  So such was the case for team ungleich and team
South Pole. We love that those whom we provide our services to have
the same mission as we do. Enabling and supporting like-minded people
with what we have built has been a really exciting journey for our
team.

## Continuing our work on sustainability together

South Pole is offering a variety of
[Sustainability
Solutions](https://www.southpole.com/sustainability-solutions) in all
kinds of areas. At ungleich we focus on sustainable hosting in the
[Data Center Light](https://datacenterlight.ch/), the renewable
energy-powered data center in the Alps.

Together we can make a change for a better world.

![](/u/image/southpole-ungleich-penguin-together.jpg)

## Join the discussion

If you like to discuss sustainability topics, we invite you to get in
touch with us:

* [Get in touch with South Pole](https://www.southpole.com/contacts)
* Get in touch with ungleich