Assets and Operations
We will achieve an appropriate IT cost ratio, rapid service delivery, further robustness, and carbon neutrality by promoting cloud migration, standardization, and streamlining of IT assets, as well as consolidating operations.
Initiatives for the Environment
Hitachi has developed its Environmental Vision and long-term environmental targets, “Hitachi Environmental Innovation 2050”, which outline the company’s direction and ambitions toward FY 2050.
In our IT departments, we are continuing and expanding the promotion of “IT operations with low environmental impact” to contribute to company-wide CO2 reduction activities. We also conducted educational activities aimed at fostering environmental awareness among employees.
Rate of reduction in CO2 emissions due to server reductions at Hitachi data centers
Corporate IT-managed in-house data centers
Results for reductions in FY 2025 (compared to FY 2010)
Promoting IT operations that have a low environmental impact
To achieve the company’s environmental goals, our IT departments are focusing on reducing the CO2 emissions from IT itself. We continue to promote CO2 reduction through the Review of IT Equipment Usage and Operation, which targets servers, data centers, and user devices (PCs, monitors, and smartphones).
As part of our efforts to reduce the environmental impact of servers and data centers, we are promoting cloud lift and shift in collaboration with public cloud vendors, as well as energy conservation and the use of renewable energy in data centers. The Corporate IT department completed the cloud consolidation of servers owned in the in-house data centers and achieved a carbon neutrality rate of 100% by the end of FY 2024. We are currently promoting efforts to achieve carbon neutrality for the servers and data centers owned by the IT departments of Hitachi Group companies. With the goal of achieving a carbon neutrality rate of 100% for Hitachi Group IT departments by the end of FY 2030, we will promote the lift and shift of servers to environmentally friendly cloud services and accelerate carbon neutrality across the entire company.
As part of our efforts to reduce the environmental impact of user devices (PCs, monitors, and smartphones), we are encouraging users to switch to newer, more environmentally-friendly device models. To facilitate the switch, newer models of PCs and monitors that come with the right to offset CO2 emissions over the entire product lifecycle will be provided as an IT service within Hitachi. For smartphones, encouraging the switch from older models to newer 5G-compatible models will lead to the use of carriers’ 5G equipment and base stations, which run on renewable energy, thereby contributing to a reduction in CO2 emissions. The carbon neutrality rate for user devices provided through the Corporate IT department services achieved 100% by the end of FY 2024.
We will investigate the IT devices used by BUs#1 and Group companies and provide solutions that support the switch to environmentally-friendly IT services. This will accelerate efforts to reduce the environmental impact of the Hitachi Group as a whole.
Fostering environmental awareness
In the Corporate IT department, we use initiatives such as posting campaigns on the internal social network so that each employee can view environmental contribution activities as personally relevant. Through participatory communication involving employees, we are working to foster awareness.
In addition, we continuously analyze various types of log data, including power consumption and the number of pages printed, and track data-based changes in behavior. To identify further improvements, we also undertake initiatives such as implementing ideas submitted by employees.
#1 BU: Business Unit
#2 Carbon offset: Offsetting your own CO2 emissions through various methods, such as investing in reforestation or biofuel development businesses or donating an amount comparable to the amount of emissions
