en.Wedoany.com Reported - Data center and cloud service provider Aruba has acquired three operational hydroelectric plants on the Stura di Lanzo River in Italy's Piedmont region, expanding its proprietary hydropower portfolio to 11 facilities.

Located in the municipalities of Cafasse, Balangero, and Lanzo Torinese in the Province of Turin, these three hydroelectric plants are expected to produce approximately 10 GWh of renewable energy annually.

Following the acquisition, Aruba's hydropower capacity reaches approximately 11.6 MW, with total annual generation expected to exceed 60 GWh. The company's hydroelectric plants are distributed across five rivers in five Italian regions: Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

According to Aruba, the selection of the newly acquired plants considered factors such as water resource availability, existing river infrastructure, upstream flow regulation, and geographical diversity.

Prior to this acquisition, the company installed a third turbine at its hydroelectric plant at the Ponte San Pietro campus near Bergamo, enhancing the site's generation capacity. Aruba has also installed photovoltaic systems on suitable buildings at its Bergamo campus and Rome data center campus.

Aruba stated that the additional generation will help reduce the environmental impact of electricity used by its own infrastructure and by customer IT equipment hosted in its data centers. Any additional power requirements are sourced from renewable energy supplies.