green energy
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Intersect Power, a US-based clean energy provider, has penned partnerships with Google and TPG Rise Climate (TPG) to supply power and storage solutions for data centres. -
Global data centre operator Equinix has signed a 10-year virtual power purchase agreement with renewable energy firm Neoen to supply 53 MW of solar power to support its facilities in Italy.
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Oklo, a Sam Altman-backed startup aiming to develop small nuclear power plants, has acquired US-based radioisotope firm Atomic Alchemy to boost fuel production for its reactors.
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New research from Gartner suggests that increased power demands from data centres running AI and generative AI workloads could constrain power availability in 40% of sites by 2027.
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Asia has a big role to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions as the continent looks to innovate with regards to its ESG strategy.
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Princeton Digital Group is to power three new data centres in Indonesia from geothermal energy.
Forthcoming events
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Estonian company Greenergy Data Centers has deployed cloud-ready and AI-driven technology at its 31.5MW data centre.
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An organisation called Green America has started a campaign against telecoms operators in the US, and is calling on them to move to renewable energy by 2025.
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Pennsylvania data centre company Cumulus Data has completed what it calls “key milestones” in a 475MW zero-carbon campus – powered by nuclear power.
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IHS Towers has announced plans to extend its Project Green in order to reduce its carbon footprint at a cost of US$214 million in capital expenditure between now and 2024.
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Oslo-based Bulk Data Centers has announced a number of expansion projects across its data centre sites in Norway, with investment focused on 100 % renewable energy.
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Bharti Airtel subsidiary Nxtra Data has partnered with Bloom Energy to deploy low environmental impact fuel cell installation at its data centre in Karnataka, reducing carbon emissions through cleaner, hydrogen ready fuel supply.
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Hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk has announced the successful close of a green loan in Japan as part of what it calls its new green financing framework.
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Aligned Data Centers has received recognition for outstanding achievements in sustainable design and construction from the Green Building Initiative (GBI).
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Vantage Data Centers has closed on a US$300 million green loan in recognition of its sustainable design features for the VA13 data centre located in Northern Virginia.
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Telecoms operators can make improvements of up to 90% in energy use, according to an Earth Day report from ABI Research.
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Vodafone has developed self-powered mobile towers that it will deploy across the UK, in support of the company’s goal of reaching net zero for its UK operations by 2027.
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The mobile industry needs to set itself aggressive targets in energy efficiency in order to cut consumption as demand grows.
