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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Communication service providers believe that AI software is key to reducing network energy demand and emissions, according to research from Nokia and GSMA Intelligence.
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Amazon has started up its first Scottish windfarm, just 60km from Glasgow, where the global COP26 climate conference starts this weekend.
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Jian Wen, vice director in ZTE’s corporate branding & communications department, about the equipment maker’s contribution toward a carbon neutral future
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As the world catches fire, are data centres helping us improve the climate emergency or making it worse? It’s hard to be precise, Alan Burkitt-Gray finds
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Green Mountain, the Norwegian company acquired last month by Azrieli Group, is to expand its DC3-Oslo data centre by an additional 4MW.
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Telefónica has put its weight behind international development goals, saying it wants to deploy sustainable, resilient and quality infrastructures.
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Vodafone says it has achieved a promise made in July 2020 that its European networks will be 100% powered from renewable sources by next week.
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Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems is looking at ways to save up to 20,000 tonnes of CO2 per year at two of its data centres.
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Building infrastructure in any emerging market takes time and patience. As IXAfrica breaks grounds in Kenya, Guy Willner, CEO and chairman of IXcellerate tells Abigail Opiah that construction on the continent is not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ venture.
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The SDIA was pleased to see the recent announcement regarding the formation of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact.
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Orange has entered a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA) with Total Quadran, a provider of renewable energies in France and subsidiary of Total.
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Data centres are critical when the innovative technologies are flourishing to an explosion in demand for data centre storage and computing power.
