Energy
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The UK government has launched a new cross-industry initiative aimed at improving energy efficiency and sustainability in AI. -
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled 16 potential federal locations primed for data centre development.
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While the data centre industry is on the rise, operators have new hurdles to overcome: reporting requirements.
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The data centre industry’s immense growth consequently brings rising power demands, with intensive workloads for technologies like cloud and AI requiring even more energy to run.
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The UK government has continued its ripping up of archaic planning rules to cut grid connection waiting times.
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The UK government has committed £23 million in funding for telecoms research aimed at expanding connectivity to underserved regions across the country.
Forthcoming events
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Uncover the key talking points from the inaugural Datacloud & Energy ESG summit
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As Europe transitions towards greener energy, the role of data centres in supporting grid stability is coming under increased scrutiny. At the Datacloud Energy & ESG 2025 panel discussion, industry leaders debated how data centres can evolve from passive energy consumers into active participants in grid management.
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At Datacloud Energy & ESG 2025, industry leaders tackled one of the most pressing challenges facing Europe's digital infrastructure: how data centres and grid operators can work together more effectively.
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Datacloud Energy & ESG 2025: AWS policy director warns EU grid delays threaten data centre expansionAWS’s director of infrastructure policy for EMEA urged European policymakers to accelerate grid infrastructure modernisation, warning that delays in power connectivity could threaten the future of data centre expansion and the continent’s digital ambitions.
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As AI adoption skyrockets, the demand for gigawatt-scale data centres is accelerating at an unprecedented pace.
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Based on recent headlines, you might believe that the location of data centres is determined by two factors: where there’s space, and where permission is granted to build them. But the reality is quite different.
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As access to power is increasingly compounding new data centre projects, could nuclear energy be the answer to addressing power supply challenges?
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Industry leaders at the Datacloud Energy & ESG 2025 conference painted a sobering picture of the continent's technological position, with critical technological and economic gaps threatening the continent's digital competitiveness.
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Ireland's energy regulator has proposed new rules that would force new data centres to provide power generation capabilities that would match their capacity demand in order to reduce strain on the national grid.
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The UK government is set to overhaul planning rules for nuclear reactors, making it easier to build new clean energy sources for power data centres.
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Data centre operators need to push for aggressive power use effectiveness (PUE) targets to reduce the anticipated demands on global grids, according to Professor Aoife Foley, IEEE senior member, Fellow Engineers Ireland, and chair in Net Zero Infrastructure at the University of Manchester
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One of President Biden's closing acts before leaving office was to extend an olive branch to the US data centre market, instructing federal agencies to make sites ready for new AI data centres and clean power facilities.
