The installation consists of a total of 12 Bloom Energy Servers – also known as Bloom boxes — on the 5th floor of Adobe’s West Tower at the company’s headquarters campus, which is composed of three towers and a parking structure.
Each server, which includes thousands of Bloom fuel cells – flat, solid ceramic squares made from a sand-like powder, will use an electrochemical process to convert air and biogas into electricity, producing zero net carbon emissions.
The installation of the Bloom Energy fuel cells will enable Adobe, which also installed 20 Windspire wind turbines in December, 2009 to generate its own electricity on site, lowering energy costs, while reducing its carbon footprint by approximately 121.5 million pounds over 10 years.
Adobe senior director of global workplace solutions Randall Knox said that installing Bloom Energy fuel cells supports Adobe’s efforts to remain at the forefront of utilizing impactful, clean technologies to reduce their environmental footprint.
“We hope to be an example to other companies considering cleaner, more affordable energy sources for their operations,” Knox said.
