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.
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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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Estonian company Greenergy Data Centers has deployed cloud-ready and AI-driven technology at its 31.5MW data centre.
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French renewable energy company Engie has signed power purchase agreements with data centre operator Digital Realty and French telco Iliad.
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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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Telefónica has issued a €1 billion bond that it describes as a “green hybrid” and is linked to the company’s aims for energy efficiency and sustainability.
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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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The mobile industry is leading the race towards net-zero emissions, but many need to integrate sustainability goals into their core objectives.
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Orange is to use solar power for one fifth of the energy needed by one of its major satellite stations.
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Satellite company Iridium has created what it calls a first-of-its-kind programme in support of a Smithsonian Institution conservation project.
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Helsinki-based data centre operator Hyperco is to develop two new campuses, each with an initial capacity of 50MW.
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Eighty data centre companies and 22 associations have launched an agreed way to assess operators’ move to climate neutrality by 2030.
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Data centres use 2.4% of global energy consumption. Operators are hunting for ways to use less energy or to use it more effectively, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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stc and Nokia confirm the adoption of energy-efficient solutions, enabling stc to reduce its carbon emissions and support its net-zero targets.