Khazna’s DXB8 Becomes World’s First Zero-Waste-Certified Data Center
An international certificate, followed by a 12-month audit, confirms that 99.55% of its waste is diverted away from landfills.
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Khazna Data Centers, the infrastructure arm of G42, has positioned its DXB8 facility as a test case for what “zero waste” might mean in the context of hyperscale digital infrastructure. Following a 12-month third-party audit, the Dubai site received Zero Waste Certification from SCS Global Services under the SCS-110 standard, reporting 99.55% diversion of operational waste from landfill. DXB8 is the first data center globally to achieve this certification.
The figure is less a single breakthrough than the outcome of systems design. Waste streams — spanning construction inputs, cooling systems, facilities management, and supply chains — were reorganized through layered interventions: segregation protocols, vendor-linked reuse loops, resale channels, and composting pathways. Notably, the certification excludes tenant-generated IT waste within data halls, narrowing the claim to operator-controlled processes while still reflecting a high degree of operational control.
“Achieving Zero Waste status is not about a single initiative. It is the result of consistent operational discipline, strong partnerships across our supply chain, and a culture that prioritizes environmental responsibility alongside performance and reliability,” said Elisabetta Baronio, Director – ESG, Khazna Data Centers.
For data centers, where redundancy, uptime, and scale typically complicate sustainability efforts, near-total landfill diversion signals a shift from aspirational ESG framing to measurable process engineering. The DXB8 case suggests that waste, like energy, can be treated as a managed output of infrastructure rather than an externality.
Khazna frames the achievement as part of its sustainability efforts across design and operations. Its deployment of an AI-enabled optimization layer developed with Presight points to how environmental performance is increasingly embedded within control systems themselves.
By aggregating operational data for predictive maintenance, fault detection, and energy optimization, the platform blurs the boundary between efficiency and sustainability, making both functions part of a single underlying intelligence.
