green energy
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Aalo Atomics, a startup building modular nuclear plants for data centres, has unveiled its first non-nuclear prototype of its Aalo-1 reactor alongside the opening of a 40,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Austin. -
The UK government has launched a new cross-industry initiative aimed at improving energy efficiency and sustainability in AI.
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Ten of the UK's largest digital connectivity companies have signed a joint letter encouraging their suppliers to adopt voluntary minimum standards to reduce carbon emissions.
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A consortium in Japan is set to build an offshore floating green data centre, marking a major step in the evolution of sustainable AI infrastructure.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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President Joe Biden has issued an Executive Order aimed at accelerating AI infrastructure in the US, including making federal sites available for new AI data centres and clean power facilities.
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Nokia is set to provide optical networking solutions for the European offshore transmission operator TenneT, connecting its wind farms in the North Sea to the land.
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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.
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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.
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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.
