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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  YPO debuts £400m datacentre and cloud framework for local councils and schools

  Procurement management organisation YPO has set live a public sector framework designed to support local authorities and educational institutions embrace hybrid cloud

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  British Airways resolves IT systems issues that forced it to ground and delay hundreds of flights

  British Airways has confirmed the IT system-related technical difficulties that resulted in it having to cancel hundreds of flights have been resolved

• August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19

  Amazon to build second wind power plant in Ireland to support AWS green cloud push

  Amazon sets out plans to ramp up availability of green power in Ireland and US, as its push to make its datacentre fleet run in a more sustainable way continues apace

• August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19

  Enterprise-readiness of business cloud services found lacking in Netskope research

  Latest analysis of cloud and internet usage trends in the enterprise space by Netskope suggests the majority of the off-premise services businesses use are not fit for purpose from a security and data protection standpoint

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Google increases presence and investments in Finland

  New next-generation datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google’s growing interest in Finland

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Microsoft-owned LinkedIn commits to multi-year, all-in move to Azure public cloud

  Professional social networking site reveals plans to move all its workloads to the Microsoft public cloud over the next few years

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  HPE and SAP among tech industry backers of UN climate change mitigation campaign

  Enterprise tech giants HPE and SAP are among a number of technology firms which have responded to the UN’s calls for corporations to do more to reduce the risk of global warming and cut their emissions

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Dutch authorities temporarily halt datacentre construction

  Two local authorities in the Netherlands have put the brakes on datacentre construction to give them time to put policies in place to gain more control over builds

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Green datacentre goes live in Goonhilly to support AI ambitions of enterprises and academia

  Almost a year to the day after it was announced, a renewably-powered datacentre has gone live at Goonhilly Earth Station, as the radio-communications site prepares to position itself as an AI innovation hub

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  Tax changes lead to review of Sweden’s datacentre development

  Swedish government has changed the rules on how it offers tax rebates to datacentre providers and users, hitting domestic companies

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Amsterdam’s datacentres face challenges to retain high growth

  The Amsterdam datacentre market is growing rapidly, but the industry behind it must get on top of some burgeoning challenges

• July 08, 2019 08 Jul'19

  Case study: Using pre-fab datacentres to meet Norway's growing demand for colocation space

  Datacentre operator Green Mountain embraces Schneider Electric's pre-fabricated datacentre designs to ensure it is positioned to respond to the growing demand from the hyperscale and HPC communities for colocation capacity in Norway

• June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19

  MPs to probe UK’s growing e-waste problem

  The parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has launched an inquiry into electronic waste and the circular economy

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  Growing diversity of datacentre types revealed in latest Vertiv 2025 market predictions study

  Datacentre power specialist’s latest poll on what the industry will look like in 2025 reveals a change in attitude from respondents to powering sites with renewable energy, and shines a light on how its looming skills crisis is developing

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  Apple cancels plans to build second European datacentre in Denmark

  The consumer electronics giant plans to focus its efforts on expanding its soon-to-be completed datacentre in Denmark, rather than invest in standing up a second facility in the country