sustainability
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Bernard Looney, former CEO of oil and gas giant BP has joined sustainable data centre startup Prometheus Hyperscale as chair of its Board of Directors. -
Nearly three-quarters (72%) of UK business leaders are feeling the pressure to meet sustainability targets, new research has revealed.
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Investment firm DTCP has backed the new sustainable data centre platform GreenScale, to support its efforts to sustainably support hyperscale and AI workloads.
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BT Group has activated its first self-powering mobile site in the Shropshire Hills, with approximately 70% of the site’s energy requirements met by on-site solar panels and a wind turbine.
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has unveiled plans to open a new net-zero carbon office in central Manchester.
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Google has hit the reset button on its US$200 million data centre project in Santiago, Chile, after environmental concerns, mainly around water usage.
Forthcoming events
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Big Data Exchange (BDx) has entered into an agreement with Red Dot Analytics (RDA) to digitise BDx’s Asia-Pacific data centres, for greater efficiency and sustainability.
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A UK windfarm is to install its own cloud-based private 4G and 5G network using open RAN technology from Mavenir.
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Cyber security is the main building block needed in digital infrastructure over the next few years, says a new survey by one of Capacity’s sister titles.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is boosting efforts to improve energy efficiency among the country’s data centres via its Energy Star programme.
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NTT Ltd is developing its seventh US data centre campus in Phoenix, Arizona, a 240MW capacity site with data centre cores and shells built to LEED specifications.
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Norwegian company Telenor is calling for more digitalisation as a way through the climate emergency.
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The Norwegian government has updated its strategy for all data centres across the country, to include new measures on sustainable growth and job creation.
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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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Telecoms operators and equipment vendors need to consider energy and sustainability, says the organisation leading the move to 6G.
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Kao Data has claimed a UK first as it transitions from using diesel to renewable hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuel.
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Today the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry accounts for more than 2% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the European Commission in 2020.
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DATA4 is continuing its ambitious European expansion by investing over €100 million to build one of the most powerful data centres in Poland.
