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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Google’s cloud regions and offices in the UK and Spain are on track to operate at or near 90% carbon-free energy in 2025, according to a senior company executive.
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Orange has signed an agreement for a sustainability-liked refinancing of its €6 billion syndicated credit facility with 27 banks.
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Earth Wind & Power (EWP), a provider of sustainable excess energy and green computing power, is to offtake excess and pre-grid offshore wind power for datacentre infrastructure in Northern Europe.
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e& and Ericsson have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the same time of the 2022 Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) in Egypt.
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American Tower Corporation’s African subsidiary, American Tower Corporation Africa (ATC Africa) and PowerX are partnering on AI-driven solutions for sustainability.
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T5 Data Centers’ facilities management unit is expanding its business into Denmark, the company has announced.
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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.
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Telehouse International Corporation of Europe has announced a collaboration with software provider EkkoSense, enabling the firm to achieve an anticipated 461 tonne reduction in CO2 carbon emissions at its Telehouse North site by the end of the year.
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Vertiv has released its Guide to Data Centre Sustainability, an online resource for data centre owners and operators seeking to reduce the environmental impact of their facilities.
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Swisscom is joining a Swiss national alliance to work together to avert what it expects to be an impending energy crisis this coming winter.
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IBM and the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) have signed a strategic agreement to drive the adoption of artificial intelligence in the carbon capture and industrial domains across Saudi Arabia.
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Sustainability is becoming a primary driver for data centre site selection, design, build and operations according to data centre thought leaders.
