Environmental
Management
Gamania produced educational training videos on the topic of “Promoting Environmental Friendliness ” for the Group’s sustainability blueprint, with the content covering energy conservation and carbon reduction, water resources, waste management, and environmental regulations. The videos have been made available on Gamania’s E-learning website for online viewing at any time. Awareness-raising emails were also sent to all employees to deepen their understanding of and agreement to the environmental protection actions recognized by Gamania.
In terms of the industry type, Gamania is not a company with high energy consumption and high pollution emissions; thus, its negative impact on the environment is relatively small. In order to fulfill sustainable corporate development and protect the market environment, we have formulated the “environmental and energy management policy” according to which we comply with environmental regulations, and also commit ourselves to reducing the Group’s impact on the natural environment through management mechanisms and increasing employees’ awareness of environmental protection and safety. Meanwhile, in response to the issues of global energy shortage and climate change, Gamania has incorporated the mindset of sustainability into its business management to carry on the promotion of environmental friendliness. We pass the Environmental Monitoring Report annually by the specialized third party and cotinuously commit to drive:
Gamania does not generate hazardous waste or air pollution in its business activities. However, the IT data centers still use a great amount of power to operate, which is why an energy monitoring and management system has been implemented in Gamania’s headquarters building. The design, operation, and analytical aspects of this system have been closely integrated to improve energy efficiency. Through complete and digitalized monitoring, the system performs a detailed diagnosis of the building’s energy consumption, analyzes the data gathered and compares it to the database to identify problems. These findings allow energy conservation measures to be devised and root causes to be traced for adjustments and improvements. This energy management and monitoring system monitors and senses the indoor air quality, temperature and humidity at the same time, helping maintain good air quality or remind employees to take timely responses.
To achieve digital transformation based on an ideal monitoring environment where management blind spots are avoided, Digicentre, as an agent for the 3D digital twin visualization platform of WeMB, has integrated corporate ITO with different systems, including access control, CCTV, cloud system, information security system, and environmental control system, directly staying on top of the monitoring status with digital twin technology to detect events in real-time. Currently, this technology is used in both the headquarters building in Neihu and the data center in Zhonghe to control the Group’s application of energy and resources by means of smart buildings and smart data centers, and to effectively manage energy hot spots, such as adjusting air conditioning use and troubleshooting.
Gamania continues to strengthen its energy management by closely monitoring energy consumption. In terms of electricity consumption, with energy efficiency improvement as the goal and environmental protection and energy conservation as the priority, the Company increases the awareness of energy conservation through building re-planning and renovation as well as continuous outreach activities for employees last year. In addition, this year, old lamps were replaced with high-performance LED lights. Per capita electricity consumption decreased by 313 kWh, a 4.87% reduction from 2023. Greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 2) decreased by 30.17% compared to the 2022 baseline year, which is well above the 6% reduction target.
Note 1：In 2023, the disclosure of natural gas was adjusted to uniformly reflect liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) consumption.
Note 2：Conversion factors reference the “Announced Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors dated February 5, 2024,” issued by the Ministry of Environment.
Note 3：Data coverage is 100%, calculated based on operating revenue. HK Office is included in addtion this year.
The total electricity consumption of Gamania Group’s data centers accounts for approximately 50.8% of the overall operational electricity consumption and 48.8% of the overall carbon emissions (including Scopes 1, 2, and 3). Thus, data centers were the largest energy consumer among all of Gamania’s operating locations and facilities. The energy consumption of self-owned and leased data centers has gradually increased mainly due to the AI carrying capacity, digital transformation, and operational improvement. To achieve the 2030 carbon reduction target, in addition to increasing the amount of purchased green power year by year, the self-owned data centers stabilize energy consumption by introducing cloud technology, discarding old servers, and adopting smart data center real-time monitoring equipment, and have hot and cold aisles for racks so that the malfunctioning of air conditioners due to mixed air can be avoided. In 2024, the Company’s self-owned data centers reduced their electricity usage by 1.6 million kWh, leading to a 50.4% reduction in carbon emissions compared to the previous year. The average PUE of the self-owned data centers reached 1.81. For the leased data centers, we also evaluate the data center space configuration provided by the ISPs, including comprehensive electricity, air conditioning, fire protection, security, environmental control system, and the use of renewable energy. With these data centers all in line with Gamania’s philosophy of environmental friendliness, we work towards the goal of net zero emissions together with the operators.
Beginning in 2024, Gamania has fully migrated its IT equipment to Chunghwa Telecom’s International Branch Data Center, which is managed by a professional ISP provider to meet information security standards, such as ISO 27001 and 27011. Gamania CloudForce’s Zhonghe data center and Chunghwa Telecom’s International Branch Fuguo Data Center are also used in tandem to support the overall data center planning and operations. The Company’s partnership with Chunghwa Telecom includes energy and water resource management collaboration, as well as the rental of space equipped with comprehensive power, air conditioning, fire, security, and environmental control systems. This strategy aims to improve energy efficiency, reduce costs, and lower the environmental impact of carbon emissions. We are committed to being environmentally friendly and reducing carbon emissions, and we have established independent CAGE areas within the data centers based on their design and customers’ needs to enhance security.
Gamania’s headquarters sources 100% of its water from the Taipei Water Department, supplied by the Feicui Dam. The water is mainly used for office facilities, including restrooms, the employee cafeteria, and air conditioning systems. Although our overall water consumption is relatively limited, we still adhere to sustainability principles by regularly evaluating water usage across all facilities. This helps us identify major water sources and formulate relevant water-saving measures. The employee cafeteria accounts for the largest portion of our water usage. To address this, we are actively evaluating and implementing water-saving equipment and standardizing operations like dishwashing to progressively control Gamania’s water resource usage. Furthermore, we do not engage in process or industrial water use. The wastewater we generate primarily comes from daily activities. Our employee cafeteria is equipped with a wastewater treatment facility that properly treats and improves water quality before discharge. We also conduct regular cleaning of kitchen grease traps to prevent oil contamination from entering public drainage systems, to continuously improve overall wastewater quality.
For other water-saving initiatives, we have introduced two atmospheric water generators that could capture and filter moisture in the air and turn it into potable water to reduce water consumption. In 2024, the Company also continued to increase employees’ awareness of water conservation and frame water resource management policies in a more comprehensive manner to further reduce water consumption. Hence, per capita water consumption in 2024 dropped by 1.51 m³ compared to 2023.
Note 1：Tap water usage data is sourced from the Taipei Water Department. All sources are freshwater (total dissolved solids ≤ 1,000 mg/L) are, according to the assessment based on WRI tools, not in regions with high water stress.
Note 2：Data coverage is 100%, calculated based on operating revenue.
In terms of waste management plan, Gamania’s “environmental and energy management policy” stipulates that the inventory of total weight of waste should be performed every year, and relevant reduction measures and recycling plans should be developed to properly recycle and dispose of general and industrial waste and thereby lower the emissions of waste and pollutants. The waste of Gamania is mostly household waste, kitchen waste, as well as a small portion of waste batteries and 3C products. In 2024, approximately 35.17 tons of resource recycling waste and 42.99 tons of domestic garbage were generated; the total generated waste was approximately 78.16 tons, which is 2.94% less than the total weight of waste in the previous year. Various types of waste are entrusted to legally registered companies for waste cleaning operations. In addition, Gamania has set up an intelligent recycling machine “Bottle Man” and a battery machine “Ms Battery” as a “couple,” and gives the collected PET bottles and batteries to recyclers who in turn distribute them to circular manufacturers for resource recycling and reuse, in order to create new value of waste. At the same time, employees may also earn environmental protection points by recycling waste; the accumulated points can be exchanged for relevant eco-friendly goods of the Company’s cooperation projects, e.g. in response to Arbor Day, employees may exchange a bag of toilet paper certified by environmental protection labels with the points.
Unit : Ton/year
Note 1: The source of clearing data is the clearing records of outsourced waste-clearing manufacturers.
Note 2: The data coverage rate is 100%, and the coverage rate is calculated based on operating income.
Gamania does not generate exhaust or other harmful pollutants given the nature of its business activities, so no water treatment or pollution control facilities are needed. However, we perform regular maintenance of pollution control equipment every year. The pollution prevention projects include the cleaning of water treatment pool, grease trap and drainage pipe, fume exhaust system, and air quality management, for Gama Island (the employee cafeteria). The Company spent nearly NT$370,000 in 2024 to maintain pollution prevention equipment.
