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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TIM Brasil, the Latin American offshoot of the former Telecom Italia, is to expand its 4G mobile network using solar energy in off-grid areas.
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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 Iberian Peninsula is to become home to a series of new, carbon neutral data centres after Spain's Merlin Properties partnered with Edged Energy.
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Bharti Airtel has commissioned a 14 MW captive solar power plant to meet the green energy requirements of its core and edge data centres in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Australian company TPG Telecom, which last year merged with Vodafone’s local operation, says it will be using 100% renewable electricity by 2025.
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Lars Schedin has stepped aside as group CEO of EcoDataCenter, to be replaced by Carl Frögelius, who has been running the Swedish operation since last December.
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Vodafone Spain says it has reached its goal of being powered by 100% renewable electricity, following an agreement signed with Spanish energy company Iberdrola.
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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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Nokia has made a public pledge to half its emissions by 2030 based on its 2019 levels.
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Former CyrusOne CEO Gary Wojtaszek has joined the board of Quantum Loophole, the data centre start-up led by Josh Snowhorn.
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Former EdgeMicro, CyrusOne and Verizon executive Josh Snowhorn has raised an initial US$13 million in seed funding for his new data centre project.
