HPE Releases Annual Living Progress Report as AI Uptake Makes Efficient, Secure, and Responsible Digital Infrastructure Even More Critical

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The FY25 report highlights how HPE is helping customers navigate energy, data, and governance challenges

In this article:

• 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’s expanded capabilities across AI, networking, digital trust, and disconnected cloud environments help customers scale with greater control and confidence
• New generations of HPE servers and expanded direct liquid cooling capabilities reduce data center footprints up to 96%, energy use up to 87%, and annual cooling-related emissions by up to 86%

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HPE (NYSE: 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.

Living Progress is HPE's business strategy to advance the way people live and work, by embedding responsible business practices across its value chain. The report shows how these efforts are translating into customer value, from minimizing energy use and infrastructure complexity to strengthening cyber resilience, data visibility, and trust.

“AI is transforming enterprises around the world at a pace unlike any technology before it,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE. “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, unlocking opportunities that were just not possible a few years ago.”

Advancing responsible technology

As AI adoption accelerates, customers need greater confidence that the technologies they deploy are secure, reliable, efficient, and governed responsibly. 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, including on the company’s AI Ethical Principles.

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.

These capabilities are increasingly important as organizations deploy AI in highly regulated and security-sensitive environments. For instance, Siemens Energy is deploying a dedicated global platform through HPE’s GreenLake platform to support engineering-driven high-performance computing across sites in the United States and Germany. The platform is designed to accelerate AI-enabled simulation and digital twin workflows while helping Siemens Energy maintain oversight of data and systems under strict export control requirements. It demonstrates how AI can be deployed responsibly in critical industries such as energy, where demand for new infrastructure is rising rapidly.

Growing demand for energy efficient IT solutions

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 after learning about HPE's IT sustainability offerings and expertise.

Energy efficiency and resilience are key challenges facing customers today. HPE’s solutions deliver the performance customers need while aiming to minimize the energy and resources required to run their IT estates.

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.¹ HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 has also been shown to deliver up to a 45% reduction in energy consumption.² And, across its networking portfolio, HPE’s AI-driven automation and analytics, including HPE Mist Networking Data Center Assurance, are optimizing operations with real-time power and carbon visibility to reduce unnecessary energy consumption.

In addition, HPE also expanded the use of direct liquid cooling (DLC) to support higher-density AI and high-performance computing workloads across its portfolio, including HPE ProLiant Compute and HPE Cray systems, helping minimize cooling-related carbon footprint and costs for customers by up to 86% annually.³ In high-performance computing, HPE had four systems ranked in the top 10 Green500 list of the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers.

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. The system is helping UK researchers access advanced AI capabilities sooner, accelerating work across drug discovery, climate research, and industry.

In addition, HPE has built an end-to-end supply chain- from sourcing to manufacturing to delivery, installation, and servicing- that prioritizes energy and resource efficiency. And, through HPE Financial Services, customers can extend asset life, recover value, and modernize more sustainably.

Sustainability leadership recognitions

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. Reflecting its efforts to operate responsibly, HPE was named by Ethisphere as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for the 8th consecutive year and ranked #2 against the 45 largest global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies in the 2025 KnowTheChain ICT Benchmark.

To learn more and read the full FY25 Living Progress Report, visit: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/living-progress/report.html

About HPE

HPE (NYSE: HPE) is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing together the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve more. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way people live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize operational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their impact. Unlock your boldest ambitions with HPE. Discover more at www.hpe.com.

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1 The Sustainability Impact of HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 Servers, 2025.

2 Based on internal analysis comparing power consumption, cooling requirements, and energy efficiency when transitioning from spinning disk to HPE Alletra Storage MP’s all-flash architecture. See HPE Storage Substantiation.

3 Internal HPE study that compared an example traditional air-cooled data center vs an example liquid cooled data center.

 

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Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise