SDEA Wins Silver at the 2026 Global Good Awards

SDEA has won Silver in the Technology and AI for Good category at the 2026 Global Good Awards, for the SDEA Navigator and Label. It was the only entry from the data center sector among the category's finalists.

The result was announced at the awards ceremony on September 24 in London. SDEA had been shortlisted as one of six finalists in the category earlier in the year; Silver places it among the top of that group, in a category that awarded one Gold, one Silver, two Bronze, and a One-to-Watch.

The Company SDEA Kept

What made the shortlist notable holds for the result. The other finalists came from well outside the data center world: a nature-project assessment framework, product-level carbon data for construction, an acoustic material that reduces noise without blocking airflow, solar-powered energy sharing for Pacific communities, and home energy management at scale.

SDEA was the only data center entry among them. The recognition came from a sustainability and tech-for-good jury rather than from the data center industry itself. Read by people outside the sector that produced it, the case for measured, audited certification held up well enough to earn Silver.

Why the Navigator and Label

Data centers underpin nearly every digital service, and they rank among the fastest-rising sources of emissions in any industrial sector. Most sustainability claims made about them are never independently checked.

The SDEA Navigator measures a facility's full operational sustainability – facility efficiency, IT efficiency, carbon, and water – on a year of real operating data. The SDEA Label turns that measurement into third-party audited certification. A Silver in this company is a signal that the case for verified measurement is landing beyond the industry it serves.

About the Global Good Awards

The Global Good Awards are a UK-based program recognizing social and environmental sustainability across a range of categories, open to corporates, SMEs, charities, and public bodies. Their guiding line is "rewarding actions not aims," and the awards themselves hold a Gold Awards Trust Mark for how they are run.