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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Russian data centre operator IXcellerate has announced its plans to build a sustainable data centre campus at a newly secured location in the south of Moscow.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) claims it will achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to address the global climate crisis.
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Microsoft is to use its progress on sustainability goals as a factor in determining executive pay, starting in the next fiscal year.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from across the ICT infrastructure industry.
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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.
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Icelandic's state-owned telecoms provider Neyðarlínan ohf has partnered with GenCell Energy to overcome challenging power requirements while reducing its environmental impact.
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Domestic shipments of smartphones in China fell by 20.4% last year, according to figures from the China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT).
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The 15 largest telco service providers each announced at least one green energy initiative in the 12 months to November.
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Jon Healy, operations director at Keysource, explains why sustainability will continue to influence business decisions in 2021
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Datagrid New Zealand has announced plans to build a new $500 million (A$700 million) hyperscale data centre in South Island, New Zealand.
