A new three-way collaboration links a planned global ecosystem, pipeline with high-yield indoor agriculture and digital verification of environmental outcomes, according to an announcement issued from London and Toronto.

Elevate Farms Inc. and Digital Reef Ltd. have entered a partnership intended to mitigate the environmental impact of global data center expansion. The arrangement establishes a framework for Digital Reef's infrastructure pipeline to support and use environmental assets generated by Elevate Farms' high-yield, closed-loop vertical farming operations. Xange.com has been appointed to provide digital measurement, reporting, and verification of the project's environmental impact within the Reef Origin ecosystem.

The Partnership Framework

According to the announcement, the collaboration leverages Elevate Farms' proprietary vertical farming technology, which is described as reducing water consumption, land usage, and carbon emissions.

The partners say traditional agriculture supply chains are replaced with optimized indoor facilities, significantly reducing food production carbon emissions, water waste, and local land constraints.

Elevate Farms' technology is presented as part of the solution to climate impact by isolating food production from the variables of traditional agricultural farming.

The company states the approach saves more than 95 percent of standard water requirements and significantly reduces the farmland required for equivalent yields, as well as logistical carbon.

Executive Comments

Digital Reef CEO Piers Slater said the company embraces data center growth alongside environmental accountability. In his statement, Slater said Elevate joining the Digital Reef ecosystem integrates highly disruptive, resource-saving agricultural technology with the company's environmental strategy to mitigate industrial carbon, building hyper-efficient infrastructure at scale to protect natural ecosystems.

Elevate Farms CEO Amin Jadavji said the company's mission has always been to build a sustainable, scalable agricultural baseline using less land and water than previously thought possible.

He said that partnering with Digital Reef creates a direct nexus between the computational demands of tomorrow and the foundational resource requirements of the planet, facilitating digital expansion complemented by an automated, near-zero-waste food supply model.

Digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification

As part of the Reef Origin impact fund, Xange.com has been appointed to ensure data transparency. The company will employ digital measurement, reporting and verification, known as dMRV, protocols covering energy and water consumption, carbon offsets, and the environmental assets produced by Elevate Farms.

The alliance among Elevate Farms, Digital Reef, and Xange.com employs Internet of Things technology at Elevate's latest facility in the United Arab Emirates. The company says the alliance is supported by several UAE universities and promotes food sovereignty globally alongside high-level efficiency of land, water, energy, and fertilizer resources.

About the Companies Involved

Elevate Farms Inc. is described as a technology-driven vertical farming company committed to mitigating the climate realities of traditional agriculture. Using proprietary automation, advanced photobiology, and ultra-precise climate controls, the company says it produces high-density, nutrient-rich crops at a fraction of the environmental cost, saving substantial volumes of fresh water, minimizing land use, and eliminating chemical runoff from the global food chain.

Digital Reef is the digital infrastructure business of London-based Reef Origin. It is developing a global 3.3 GW data center pipeline that aims to deliver ecosystems co-locating sustainable digital, clean energy, food, water, industry, community, and ecology infrastructure, delivered against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Reef Origin is described as a sustainability-focused global real estate, infrastructure and technology developer and investor with a pipeline of projects exceeding USD 40 billion in enterprise value.

Xange.com International Holding S.à r.l. is a Luxembourg-based environmental intelligence software and market infrastructure company. It serves governments and enterprises with digital MRV systems, market infrastructure solutions, sustainability reporting, and participation in environmental markets aligned with Article 6.

Related Agreement on Rainforest Protection

At Climate Week NYC, Digital Reef and Oreasoc Agriculture Inc. signed an off-take agreement connecting Digital Reef's 3.3 GW data centre pipeline with environmental assets exceeding 30 million hectares of South American Amazon rainforest.

That agreement is aimed at mitigating the environmental footprint of data center growth through rainforest protection and restoration, and it appoints Xange.com as a digital MRV partner.

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