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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Oslo-based Bulk Data Centers has announced a number of expansion projects across its data centre sites in Norway, with investment focused on 100 % renewable energy.
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Hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk has announced the successful close of a green loan in Japan as part of what it calls its new green financing framework.
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Insurance firm Ping An says it will trial a new data centre that will set a “benchmark” for energy-saving and emission-reduction technology in China’s financial data centres.
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The French telecoms regulator wants to add information about data centres and consumer devices to its sustainability audit for the digital sector.
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P3 Logistic Parks has taken over the former Großauheim barracks in Hanau from the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (Institute for Federal Real Estate) with plans to develop a data centre campus.
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EdgeConneX has secured a series of sustainability-linked financings totalling $1.7 billion.
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Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the largest telecoms firm in Taiwan has cut its energy use by an average of 33% after using Ericsson’s 5G solutions.
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An important principle in the development of IT over the decades has been Moore’s Law. Simply put, it predicted that transistor density in processors would double every two years as development progresses.
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Colt has launched its first Sustainability Report, looking at how the company is delivering a positive environmental impact in accordance with its ESG commitments.
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Green Mountain and Scan are to combine their services to deliver managed hosting solutions for the high-performance computing (HPC) and AI markets.
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Rack Centre has become the first data centre operator in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region to receive the IFC's sustainability recognition for data centres – a standard it co-developed with the global finance organisation.
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Vodafone UK has installed what it calls its first self-powered base station, using wind power.
