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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
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May 20, 2021
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May'21
Record colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed power supply concerns
The latest quarterly tracker data from real estate consultancy CBRE confirms colocation operators in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris saw another record period of growth during Q1 2021
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May 19, 2021
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May'21
Google to shift cloud compute tasks between datacentres based on green power availability
Internet giant Google debuts capability that makes it possible to shift compute workloads between datacentres based on the regional availability of renewable, carbon-free power sources
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May 13, 2021
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May'21
Financial and technical obstacles hit Danish datacentre heat recycling plan
A datacentre project in Denmark is grappling with the challenges of reusing waste heat in local central heating systems
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May 12, 2021
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May'21
Equinix shines light on changing post-pandemic investment priorities for UK IT decision-makers
Colocation giant Equinix’s latest Tech Trends Survey takes a look at how the IT spending priorities of IT leaders across the globe have shifted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
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May 12, 2021
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May'21
Irish datacentre industry urged to throw its weight behind country’s greener electricity grid push
Host in Ireland tells industry players to work with the government and other stakeholders to boost the sustainability of the country’s electricity grid for the sake of the sector’s continued growth
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April 23, 2021
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Apr'21
Intel quarterly results reveal tactics to address ARM in the datacentre
The chipmaker aims to make use of standard chip libraries and offer its customers different ways to package and optimise Intel silicon
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April 22, 2021
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Apr'21
Ireland’s datacentre industry launches pro-pollinator plan to boost bee population
Host In Ireland leads efforts to encourage datacentre operators to help boost biodiversity at their sites by making them more hospitable to bees and other pollinators
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April 20, 2021
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Apr'21
Inside a Microsoft Azure datacentre: Cloud giant invites users on server farm virtual tour
Software giant wants to give users a ‘tangible view’ of the inner workings of its public cloud through a newly launched virtual tour experience
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April 07, 2021
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Apr'21
Digital Realty expands Singapore footprint
Digital Realty opens its third and largest datacentre in Singapore to meet the needs of local and multinational companies that are looking to deploy critical infrastructure and scale their digital business
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March 23, 2021
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Mar'21
Scottish government embarks on green datacentre investment push
The Scottish government is on a mission to position Scotland as a green datacentre hub as part of a push to boost the country's economy and achieve its net-zero emissions goal by 2045
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March 19, 2021
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Mar'21
AWS rolls out clean energy initiative in Singapore
62MW solar project expected to generate 80,000MWh of clean energy a year, enough to power more than 10,000 homes
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March 17, 2021
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Mar'21
PagerDuty expands European datacentre presence with help from AWS
Company is expanding its datacentre presence within Europe through its longstanding technology partnership with Amazon Web Services
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March 17, 2021
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Mar'21
Google Cloud shares carbon-free datacentre energy usage stats with users
Public cloud giant publishes details of its Carbon Free Energy Percentage metric that it hopes companies will use to inform their decisions about where best to run their workloads for sustainability reasons
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March 16, 2021
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Mar'21
NEXTDC debuts carbon-neutral colocation service
Australian datacentre operator will buy carbon offsets to help organisations reduce their carbon footprint through a new colocation service
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March 15, 2021
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Mar'21
Research: Continuous upgrades to datacentre virtualisation setups key to curbing carbon emissions
A VMware-commissioned report by Aurora Energy Research highlights environmental benefits that can be attained by operators taking steps to continually improve their datacentre virtualisation setups
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March 11, 2021
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Mar'21
OVHcloud datacentre fire: Efforts underway to bring affected cloud customers back online
OVHcloud confirms it is has reserved capacity at other datacentres, and is preparing to ramp up in-house production of its servers to bring its customers back online as soon as possible
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March 10, 2021
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Mar'21
OVHcloud confirms no casualties following fire at Strasbourg datacentre campus
Local media reports suggest websites across Europe have gone offline in the wake of the blaze at OVHcloud’s datacentre campus in Strasbourg, France
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March 02, 2021
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Mar'21
HPE called in to overhaul Swedish university’s supercomputing setup
The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing has commissioned HPE to build a supercomputer for one of Sweden’s largest technical universities
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March 02, 2021
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Mar'21
CBRE predicts 2021 will be record-breaking year for European colocation demand
Latest quarterly market tracker report from CBRE paints a positive picture of how the growth of the European colocation market is set to proceed in the years to come
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February 26, 2021
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Feb'21
Amsterdam to open environmental talks with datacentres
City authorities and datacentre operators will open dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion in the Dutch capital
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February 25, 2021
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Feb'21
Atos and HDF Energy to build ‘green hydrogen-powered’ datacentre by 2023
French IT services giant joins forces with green hydrogen power expert to bring to market a ‘first-of-its-kind’ datacentre by 2023
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February 17, 2021
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Feb'21
Defra to lead creation of cloud-focused IT sustainability standard for use across government
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs continues its work to help government departments clean up their IT supply chains by creating a ‘cloud sustainability’ workstream
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February 15, 2021
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Feb'21
Wellcome Sanger Institute embarks on cost-saving energy efficiency drive at Cambridge datacentre
The Wellcome Sanger Institute has enlisted the help of long-standing tech partner EfficiencyIT to oversee a revamp of its datacentres’ energy monitoring and management systems
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February 15, 2021
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Feb'21
Power supply shortages in colocation hubs pile pressure on datacentre operators to go green
As demand for colocation capacity continues to soar in datacentre hubs, operators are coming under increasing pressure to go green, say Telehouse Europe panel participants
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February 10, 2021
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Feb'21
£2bn Zero Carbon Delivery Framework goes live to help public sector datacentres go green
A four-year, £2bn procurement framework geared towards helping public sector organisations decarbonise their operations has gone-live
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February 10, 2021
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Feb'21
Ducati and Lenovo extend long-standing MotoGP technology deal
Ducati and Lenovo have signed another three-year deal that will see the MotoGP team dig deeper into its technology partner's product portfolio in pursuit of performance gains on the track by embracing virtual desktops, HPC and edge computing
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February 03, 2021
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Feb'21
Google grows cloud sales as parent’s profits top $40bn
Alphabet announces massive overall profits and increased Google cloud sales
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January 29, 2021
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Jan'21
IBM, Apple and Accenture join MIT cross-industry climate change-tackling consortium
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s cross-industry push to tackle climate change has attracted some big names from the world of tech, including Apple, IBM, Accenture and Verizon
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January 21, 2021
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Jan'21
Microsoft teams up with UK startup to minimise impact of climate change by aviation industry
Cambridge-based startup Satavia is tapping into the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform to help aviation industry minimise the impact its activities have on the environment
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January 21, 2021
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Jan'21
Cloud and datacentre giants unite to create climate neutral EU datacentre industry by 2030
Major players from the world of public cloud and colocation have joined forces with trade associations from across the continent to create a climate neutral datacentre industry by 2030
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December 29, 2020
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Dec'20
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2020
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December 14, 2020
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Dec'20
CIO interview: Why IATA is banking on cloud to help the airline industry weather the Covid-19 crisis
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has forced the International Air Transport Association to re-evaluate its IT investment priorities as the aviation industry shifts its focus away from business growth to business survival
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December 10, 2020
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Dec'20
Amazon goes public with record-breaking renewable energy generation plans
Online retail giant Amazon has followed up earlier pledges to do more as a global organisation to tackle climate change by going public with plans to add a further 26 solar and wind farms to its portfolio
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December 10, 2020
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Dec'20
Arm to downsize global datacentre footprint through AWS cloud collaboration
British semi-conductor maker Arm has committed to shrinking the size of its global datacentre estate by 45%, and plans to do so by moving some of its core chip design workloads to the AWS cloud
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December 03, 2020
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Dec'20
Tech and data key to achieving low-carbon economy, says Royal Society
Report says net-zero transition should be data-led, and calls for coordination between government, regulators, industry and third sector
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November 18, 2020
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Nov'20
Nokia Software embarks on ‘carbon negative’ datacentre revamp push with HPE Greenlake
Global telecoms giant Nokia Software opens up about the work it is doing to improve the environmental friendliness of the R&D datacentres underpinning its 5G innovation
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November 16, 2020
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Nov'20
Space DC eyes Indonesia datacentre market
Space DC opens first of two datacentres with reliability and green features to tap Indonesia’s growing demand for datacentres
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November 09, 2020
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Nov'20
French bank Crédit Agricole backs immersion cooling for datacentre scale-up push
Following the completion of a successful two-year pilot project, Crédit Agricole has confirmed it is preparing to roll out Asperitas immersion cooling technology to more sites within its datacentre portfolio
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November 09, 2020
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Nov'20
IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 accelerates cloud investments by UK IT leaders
The updated 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget shines a light on how the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has reshaped IT leaders’ technology investment plans
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November 03, 2020
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Nov'20
OVHcloud doubles down on sustainability with carbon reduction pledges
OVHcloud emerges as the latest cloud provider to reinforce its commitment to ensuring the growth of its business does not come at the expense of the environment
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October 23, 2020
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Oct'20
Datacentre sustainability a work in progress in ASEAN
Sustainability efforts have not kept pace with the growing demand for datacentre and co-location services in Southeast Asia
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October 14, 2020
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Oct'20
Interxion invests in growing its Austrian colocation presence with Vienna campus expansion
Digital Realty-owned colocation giant Interxion is continuing to build out its European datacentre footprint, having acquired a parcel of land in Vienna to expand its Austrian server farm footprint
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October 14, 2020
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Oct'20
CyrusOne to prioritise water preservation across global colocation estate in sustainability push
Global colocation giant makes good on its promise to publish first sustainability report into its operations, which contains commitments to curb the amount of water its facilities consume locally
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October 12, 2020
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Oct'20
H&M Group signs multi-year colocation deal with Swedish eco-friendly operator in sustainability push
Clothes retailer H&M has signed a hosting deal, covering all of Northern Europe, with green datacentre operators EcoDataCenter, as its sustainability push continues apace
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October 09, 2020
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Oct'20
Datacentre sustainability tipped to become competitive differentiator for colo community by 2023
Schneider Electric marks 2020 Innovation Summit with release of joint report with 451 Research into global datacentre market’s attitudes towards sustainability
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September 29, 2020
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Sep'20
Sustaining Google Cloud: How Covid-19 and green issues are shaping enterprise take-up across Europe
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian marks the start of the firm’s five-week EMEA-focused user conference by discussing how the coronavirus is affecting enterprises’ digital transformation priorities
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September 23, 2020
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Sep'20
CyrusOne goes public with pledge to become carbon-neutral provider by 2040
Global colocation provider CyrusOne has pledged to become a carbon-neutral operator by 2040
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September 15, 2020
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Sep'20
Microsoft hails heightened reliability of servers run in sub-sea datacentres
Microsoft concludes multi-year research project into practicalities of running underwater datacentres with positive findings about the sustainability and reliability of sub-sea server farms
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September 15, 2020
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Sep'20
BP and Microsoft extend cloud deal with clean energy agreement
Companies aim to join forces to provide clean energy for Azure datacentres, smart cities and other energy consumers
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September 14, 2020
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Sep'20
Google commits to sustainability and erasing its carbon footprint
Tech giant Google will develop tools to help datacentre managers measure and reduce the company’s carbon footprint