The subsidiary company of Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Vantara, which specializes in data storage and infrastructure, as well as hybrid cloud management, published a sustainability report for FY2025 that highlights progress in the areas of environment, society, and governance. This report focuses on developments in sustainable and efficient infrastructure, such as those made possible by Hitachi Vantara’s new Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) data platform.
As organizations accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption, the energy and efficiency demands of data infrastructure are rising sharply, creating new operational and sustainability challenges. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global data center electricity consumption could reach more than 1,000 terawatt-hours by 2026, roughly equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of a major industrialized nation, driven in part by AI workloads. At the same time, organizations are under pressure to reduce costs, making it more difficult to balance performance with environmental impact. With the rise in demand for electricity comes the need for higher power and cooling capabilities, which means that efficiency becomes an important issue. Hitachi Vantara has been working to integrate sustainability into its infrastructure solutions, enabling its clients to save energy, enhance efficiency, and ensure ROI.
“Sustainability is increasingly tied to operational performance and business outcomes,” said Akinobu Shimada, CEO of Hitachi Vantara. “In FY2025, we focused on helping customers manage the growth of AI and data while improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact. Our investments in infrastructure innovation, lifecycle design and governance are enabling customers to achieve powerful results.”
Key highlights from the report include:
- Efficiency and Performance of Infrastructure: Hitachi Vantara launched its VSP One Block High End solution with the intention of providing a scalable infrastructure that is efficient in its operations but still highly reliable, minimizing the need for power and cooling solutions.
- Lifecycle sustainability advancements: The company expanded lifecycle assessment initiatives across its VSP One Block, File and Object portfolios, enabling more accurate measurement of environmental impact and improved Scope 3 emissions visibility. These efforts are complemented by tools such as the Clear Sight dashboard, which provides customers with visibility into energy consumption and carbon usage, along with actionable insights to optimize system efficiency and environmental impact.
- Circularity and materials sustainability: Hitachi Vantara increased the use of post-consumer recycled plastics across its storage systems, with up to 50% recycled content in key components. The company also reported that less than 0.3% of materials were sent to landfill, with the vast majority reused or recycled through optimized recovery and circularity programs.
- Governance and data quality improvements: Hitachi Vantara enhanced cross-functional governance and emissions tracking processes, strengthening audit readiness and improving data accuracy across Scope 1, Scope 2 and key Scope 3 categories, aligning with science-based emissions reduction targets and evolving ESG reporting standards.
Hitachi Vantara’s dedication to sustainability goes beyond its own operations. The company works to help customers make real improvements in efficiency, performance, and environmental impact. The company’s infrastructure and data platforms help businesses use less energy, make better use of their resources, and run more sustainably on a larger scale. Some recent examples are:
- Aquiris (Belgium): Upgraded its storage platform with VSP One Block to improve operational efficiency, resilience and reliability for critical water treatment operations, processing more than 110 million cubic meters of wastewater annually and collecting over one million data points per day, while helping reduce power usage and lower its carbon footprint through more efficient data management and infrastructure.
- DestekBank (Turkey): Deployed VSP One Block to support rapid retail banking expansion, achieving a 25% reduction in data center energy consumption, a 35% increase in application performance and a 20% reduction in total cost of ownership.
- Malayala Manorama (India): Modernized its data infrastructure with Hitachi Vantara to support 24/7 media operations, achieving a 66% reduction in data center rack space and 70% savings in power and cooling costs, while improving availability and operational efficiency across its print, broadcast and digital platforms.
“Hitachi Vantara is helping us fulfill our goal of creating a sustainable process for safeguarding supplies of clean water and supporting the growth and development of Brussels,” said Juan Ochoa, managing plant director, Aquiris. “The performance gains with VSP One Block will be significant. We are constantly collecting data, tracking KPIs and monitoring our purification processes. The improvement in storage capabilities will help us respond quickly to issues and optimize our plant operations.”
The FY2025 Sustainability Report shows that Hitachi Vantara has made progress over the past year, but it also shows a bigger change in how the company thinks about sustainability. It is now building efficiency, transparency, and lifecycle thinking directly into its infrastructure and operations. This method helps businesses make sustainability a part of their daily operations on a large scale, especially as AI-driven workloads put more strain on infrastructure.
For more information on Hitachi Vantara’s sustainability efforts and to view the full FY2025 Sustainability Report, go to: https://www.hitachivantara.com/sustainability.
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