HPE today announced the publication of its 11th annual Living Progress Report, detailing the company's Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) progress against its Living Progress strategy. The report highlights how HPE enables customers to operate effectively as rising demand for compute-intensive workloads like AI place greater pressure on energy, resources, regulation, and trust. Since 2020, HPE increased net revenue by 21% while decreasing its total carbon footprint by 5% - demonstrating that business growth and innovation can be delivered alongside greater efficiency.
HPE increased revenue 21% while reducing carbon footprint 5% since 2020.
$4.4B net revenue reflected customers choosing sustainability-attributed products.
New servers reduce data center footprints up to 96% and energy use up to 87%.
Direct liquid cooling reduces cooling-related emissions up to 86% annually.
HPE had 4 systems in top 10 Green500 list of most energy-efficient supercomputers.
Recognized on CDP Climate A-List, EcoVadis Platinum Medal, and Ethisphere World's Most Ethical Companies.
Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE, stated: "AI is transforming enterprises around the world at a pace unlike any technology before it. The success of the next phase of AI adoption will depend on organizations' ability to use creativity and focus to deploy AI securely, efficiently, and responsibly at scale. HPE is helping customers confidently build trusted technology that protects data, navigates complexity, and turns innovation into real outcomes."
In FY25, HPE strengthened internal product and governance approaches and continued to mature its AI Governance model through internal risk assessments, an AI Governance and Enablement Hub, and targeted team member training. HPE also advanced responsible solutions for customers, like HPE Private Cloud AI and HPE Private Cloud Enterprise air-gapped solutions, which support secure, disconnected deployments for sensitive workloads.
Demand for HPE's IT sustainability-related offerings keeps increasing as customers continue to evaluate infrastructure decisions through the combined lens of performance, cost, energy use, and resilience. In FY25, $4.4 billion of total net revenue reflected customers' propensity to purchase products with sustainability attributes. New generations of compute and storage, such as HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, can reduce data center footprints by up to 96% and use up to 87% less power compared to earlier generations. HPE also expanded the use of direct liquid cooling (DLC) to support higher-density AI and high-performance computing workloads, helping minimize cooling-related carbon footprint and costs for customers by up to 86% annually.
In high-performance computing, HPE had four systems ranked in the top 10 Green500 list. One of those systems is Isambard-AI, built by HPE for the University of Bristol. The UK's most powerful AI supercomputer and ranked fourth most energy-efficient in the world as of 2026, Isambard-AI was delivered through an HPE modular data center that achieved an estimated 72% reduction in facility construction emissions compared with traditional construction methods.
HPE continues to receive external recognition tied to its sustainability, ethics, and workforce efforts. HPE was recognized in Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the 5th year in a row. HPE also made CDP's Climate A-List and received the EcoVadis Platinum Medal – putting it in the top 1% of companies with the highest sustainability performance. HPE was named by Ethisphere as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 8th consecutive year.
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