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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• 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

• June 07, 2019 07 Jun'19

  Schneider Electric CTO claims AI and cloud could give DCIM market new lease of life

  Kevin Brown tells Datacloud Europe Congress that the datacentre infrastructure management market could be on the cusp of a second coming, buoyed by cloud, big data and artificial intelligence technologies

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Datacentre operators under pressure to embrace sustainability as climate change activism rises

  The rise in climate change activism across the globe means consumers are becoming increasingly likely to vote with their feet and shun brands that do not operate in a sustainable way, and datacentre operators must prepare

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Datacentre operators urged to look beyond past experience to fill talent gaps

  Panellists at the annual Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco claim operators will continue to struggle to plug talent gaps while focusing on finding candidates with years of experience in datacentres, rather than those with an aptitude for the type ...

• June 03, 2019 03 Jun'19

  Nordics block European Commission tech tax levy to protect digital investment

  The Nordic EU countries have formed a powerful voice against the European Commission’s plans on digital service tax.

• May 30, 2019 30 May'19

  Microsoft embarks on renewable-powered datacentre push in Sweden

  Microsoft is doubling down on its efforts to have more of its datacentres powered by renewable energy, with commitment to make its facilities in Sweden the most sustainable yet

• May 29, 2019 29 May'19

  Inside Digital Realty’s datacentre playbook

  Digital Realty’s chief technology officer talks up key trends that are shaping its business and the datacentre industry, including edge computing and the impending roll-out of 5G networks

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Inward investment into Irish datacentre market set to top €10bn by 2022, research claims

  Latest quarterly market report from Host In Ireland shines a light on how the Irish economy is benefiting from the country’s ongoing development into key European datacentre hub

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Stella McCartney and Google Cloud start machine learning and fashion-focused sustainability push

  Stella McCartney and Google Cloud are embarking on a joint pilot project that will draw on the tech giant's machine learning and cloud-based data processing portfolio to help clean up the fashion industry's supply chains

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Microsoft sets stricter renewable energy targets for its datacentres

  Software giant claims its efforts to have its datacentres run exclusively on renewable power are progressing faster than expected, prompting it to reassess its own self-imposed sustainability targets

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Conclusion of legal row over Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre fuels site takeover hopes

  After four years of planning delays and legal wrangles, Irish Supreme Court dismisses appeal lodged by objectors to the Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build

• April 11, 2019 11 Apr'19

  Google doubles down on machine learning to drive up energy efficiency of global datacentre fleet

  With enterprises becoming more mindful of how sustainable their IT consumption habits are, Google outlines its work to ensure the datacentres underpinning its cloud platform continue to push the envelope on energy efficiency

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Sweden chosen by Amazon Web Services as renewable energy project location

  Amazon Web Services has chosen a wind farm in Sweden as part of a project to source renewable energy for its global infrastructure

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Norway datacentre strategy producing dividend

  Norway's strategy to become a favourable location for Nordic datacentres is gathering steam

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  UKCloud secures £25m investment to support multi-cloud public sector push

  G-Cloud-listed IT services firm UKCloud has received a sizeable financial boost to support its efforts to cater to the differentiated demands of public sector technology buyers

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Legal row over Apple's abandoned bid to build an Irish datacentre rumbles on

  The Supreme Court has opted to reserve its judgement until a later date about whether or not Irish planning chiefs were right to award Apple planning permission for its now defunct plan to build a datacentre in Athenry

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  AWS and Greenpeace at war over claims cloud giant has ‘turned its back’ on renewable energy pledge

  Amazon Web Services hits back at Greenpeace for suggesting it has 'turned its back' on powering its cloud with renewable energy, as a new report claims its growth could be driving the use of fossil fuels in Virginia

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  IT Priorities 2019: Cloud migrations emerge as top investment area for IT decision-makers

  This year’s Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities research shows a growing appetite among UK IT leaders to move more of their IT estate and applications to the cloud

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Legal & General Capital ploughs investment into Kao Data’s Essex-based datacentre campus

  Financial services giant’s investment arm embarks on sizeable investment to support the continued expansion of Kao Data's colocation campus in Harlow

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  T-Systems cuts size of datacentre estate by 85% through technology refresh

  The IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom has culled the number of datacentres it operates from 89 to 13, but claims to have seen its compute capacity increase by 25%

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Nordic green energy IT strategy gains momentum

  The Nordic countries are building strong IT sectors around their green-powered datacentre infrastructures

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  Norwegian cryptocurrency miners lament proposed loss of energy use-related tax relief

  A wide-ranging push by the Norwegian government’s tax collection agency to clamp down on cryptocurrency miners has incurred the wrath of a company planning to build the world’s biggest datacentre

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Defra unveils green government tech vision

  Printing reams of paper and travelling to meetings are among the areas targeted in the new, green ICT makeover

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Global server revenue hits record quarterly high as hyperscale demand for datacentre kit soars

  Latest worldwide server market tracker from analyst house IDC suggests hyperscale demand for datacentre hardware has fuelled record quarterly revenue growth for the sector

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Hyperscalers must prep for increase in government regulation and taxation, warns Uptime Institute

  Datacentre think tank Uptime Institute claims government concerns about the tightening hold the hyperscalers have on society and the economy will lead to greater measures to improve the sustainability of their operations in 2019

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels declares Oracle data warehouse switch-off as 2018 work highlight

  During the closing keynote at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the CTO of the cloud giant's parent company opened up about the career highs and lows of working for Amazon.com

• November 22, 2018 22 Nov'18

  Equinix, Digital Realty and NGD fuel UK colocation market growth with datacentre expansions

  Colocation giants Equinix, Digital Realty and Next Generation Data open up about the multi-million pound commitments they are making to expanding their datacentre footprint in the UK

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  BA to sue CBRE over May Bank Holiday datacentre outage

  Airline is taking legal action against the managed service provider tasked with overseeing the management of its datacentres during its outage in May 2017

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  Interview: Comms sector ripe for disruption as climate change takes hold

  Humanity has just 12 years left to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5⁰C and prevent climate meltdown. Paul Dickinson from the Carbon Disclosure Project discusses how CIOs can help take steps to avert disaster by changing their attitude to ...

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Digital Realty grows Australia footprint with two new datacentres

  The datacentre service provider has opened its latest facility in Australia and has acquired land for a sixth one in a market teeming with demand from massive-scale cloud suppliers

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Uber backs hybrid cloud as route to business and geographical expansion

  Ride-hailing app Uber is rapidly expanding its business interests, which requires an IT infrastructure that can scale just as quickly as its ambitions, according to the company’s head of compute, Dean Nelson

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2018 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  VMware readies green blockchain

  VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says the power used for blockchain computation will cause an environmental crisis

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Power and space constraints could put brakes on European colocation growth boom, warn experts

  Panellists at DCD>Europe discuss barriers to future growth of Europe's booming colocation market, as concerns about the availability of power and space grow larger

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham

  Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Datacentre operators ignoring risk of climate change-induced downtime, warns Uptime Institute

  Uptime Institute data suggests operators are not taking disaster recovery precautions to protect their sites from extreme weather events

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Open Compute Project eyes European enterprise adoption with Experience Centre opening

  The Facebook-backed Open Compute Project is getting its first European Experience Centre in Amsterdam, as part of a three-way collaboration between its members to get more enterprises using its technology

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  EU-backed bid to cap idle energy use by datacentre servers moves closer

  Move to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres by capping idle energy use by servers by 2020 comes one step closer, despite opposition from IBM, HPE and Dell-EMC

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Enterprise investments in datacentre infrastructure rebound as component shortage price hikes hit

  Enterprises are spending more on datacentre infrastructure, as demand for private and hybrid cloud environments increase, and price hikes from component shortages drive up average cost of hardware

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Keppel, Salim Group to build new datacentre in Indonesia

  The facility located on the outskirts of Jakarta is a response to the growing demand for connectivity and data services in Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  Facebook to build its first Asian datacentre in Singapore

  The high-rise facility will be the first of its kind to incorporate Facebook’s datacentre cooling system, cementing Singapore’s position as a datacentre hub

• August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18

  Hyperscaler demand for European datacentre space takes colocation market to new record highs

  The demand for colocation capacity from the hyperscale cloud giants shows no signs of wavering, CBRE research shows

• August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18

  EduServ confirms fallout from datacentre power outage is being resolved

  Public sector-focused IT provider EduServ suffers datacentre power outage that takes client websites and online services offline

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  Danish government in ambitious datacentre push

  Denmark offers many natural benefits for organisations looking to build datacentres in Europe, and a soon-to-be-completed connection to the US will make it even more attractive

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  Google Deepmind doubles down on AI-led efforts to improve datacentre energy efficiency

  Google Deepmind has revealed details of how it is expanding its research into how artificial intelligence can help fine-tune datacentre cooling, and – in turn – help operators save even more on energy costs

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  Waste heat from Digiplex's Nordic datacentre to warm 5,000 Oslo homes

  Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex is expanding its commitment to running its facilities in a sustainable way by agreeing to reuse its waste heat to warm homes in Oslo

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  Ireland’s planning laws cited as ‘risk’ to government’s public sector datacentre plan

  The Irish government concedes in tender document that country’s complex planning laws could put at risk government plans to build a public sector datacentre in Kildare

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  BEIS courts datacentre operators to join energy efficiency technology accelerator programme

  Government-backed programme is being run by the Carbon Trust and offering grants of up to £1m to help participants commercialise new energy-saving technology developments

• August 02, 2018 02 Aug'18

  EU-backed datacentre consortium seeks industry help for Europe-wide sustainability push

  Catalyst Consortium is creating a green energy special interest group to work out how best to encourage Europe’s datacentre operators to reuse their waste heat and reduce the impact of their activities on local energy grids

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  Google to build third datacentre in Singapore

  The facility will increase Google’s datacentre investments in the city-state to $850m, and follows the launch of Southeast Asia’s first Google Cloud Platform region in 2017

• July 13, 2018 13 Jul'18

  Virtus Data Centres plots further expansion of Slough colocation site

  Virtus Data Centres is adding three more data halls to its colocation facility in Slough, as well as carrying out a power upgrade at the site

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Investments in on-premise enterprise datacentres on the up as demand for multi-cloud rises

  IHS Markit's research into the investment priorities of enterprise datacentre operators suggests cloud is fuelling infrastructure upgrade projects

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Goonhilly Earth Station sets out plans to open green colocation datacentre in 2018

  Owners of the space satellite communications hub in Cornwall are drawing on the site’s network links to court colocation clients

• July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18

  CNet Training calls on datacentre sector for input on skill shortage research

  Technology skills and education provider CNet Training is calling on the datacentre community to help inform its research into what is behind the sector's skill shortages

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  Microsoft expands datacentre footprint in Norway

  Microsoft is introducing two new datacentre regions in Norway and is targeting the oil and gas industry with its Azure services

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth

  A shortage of power availability in Amsterdam might make businesses look elsewhere in the Netherlands to site datacentres

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Public cloud giants' use of ODM datacentre kit continues to soar, Synergy Research shows

  Latest quarterly tracker by Synergy Research highlights just how the ODM community now dominates the public cloud giant's datacentre investments

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead datacentre colocation market

  NTT had the biggest market share in Asia-Pacific, while Equinix ranked third in the region during the first quarter of 2018, according to market research data

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  Datacentre industry must stop doing itself down on sustainability, says EUDCA board member

  In a panel debate at the Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco, the datacentre industry was urged to start celebrating and stop chastising itself over its sustainability practices

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre

  Witn machine learning fuelling demand for graphics processing units in the datacentre, Schneider Electric CTO claims this will require a drastic rethink of how operators manage their sites, paving the way for liquid cooling to hit mainstream adoption

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Dutch region Zeeland to get datacentre without diesel backup

  One of the world’s most sustainable datacentres is to be built in the southwest region of the Netherlands, and is said to be the first datacentre to use battery backup rather than a diesel generator

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Irish government vows to ease planning procedures for datacentre investors

  After Apple and Amazon saw their datacentre plans tripped up by the Irish planning system, the government has outlined its commitment to easing the path to construction for other operators

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Microsoft deploys underwater datacentre off the coast of Orkney

  Microsoft is stepping up its research into the feasibility of using underwater datacentres to deliver low-latency cloud services to homes and businesses across the world

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Visa blames hardware failure for UK-wide card payment system outage

  Credit card payment processor moves to assure customers that last Friday afternoon’s downtime was not the work of hackers

• May 14, 2018 14 May'18

  Inside the rise of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres

  A blended strategy of building and acquiring datacentres, as well as forming local partnerships, has contributed to the rapid rise of one of the fastest-growing datacentre providers in Asia

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Interview: Amazon Web Services Sweden

  Eric Morales leads the AWS business development team for startups and gaming companies in the Nordics. Computer Weekly caught up with him at AWS’s Nordic headquarters in Stockholm

• April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18

  TechUK calls on government for Climate Change Agreement deadline extension for datacentres

  TechUK claim decision to stop new datacentre operators from joining Climate Change Agreement programme from October 2018 could have dire consequences for the sector's future growth

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Irish planning chiefs face legal challenge over granting Amazon permission for datacentre

  Amazon Web Services faces a fresh round of opposition to its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin after an objector lodged a legal challenge to the planning chiefs who approved the project

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Facebook settles $365m modular datacentre IP theft case with UK-based BladeRoom Group

  BladeRoom and Facebook are known to have reached a confidential settlement in their long-running legal dispute, which saw the social medial giant accused of stealing trade secrets

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  Apple claims global operations now run on 100% renewable power

  Four years after hitting its 100% renewable power goal in its datacentre estate, consumer electronics giant Apple claims to have replicated the feat across its entire business

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  Norway government backs ambitious datacentre investment plan

  Norway has a plan to be a leading location for datacentres with a policy that will put it in direct competition with some of its Nordic neighbours

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Putting users first: Making sense of the CCS G-Cloud launch date U-turn

  The government's decision to roll back plans to delay the launch of G-Cloud 10 could be detrimental to the future of the framework, it is claimed

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Bitcoin burglaries: Icelandic police count cost of cryptocurrency kit thefts from datacentres

  Police in Iceland are investigating a spate of datacentre thefts, after thieves lifted 600 cryptocurrency-mining servers worth around $2m

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Microsoft Singapore to tap solar energy for datacentre operations

  Software giant Microsoft will buy 100% of the renewable energy generated by solar panels installed on rooftops across Singapore to power its datacentre operations

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Case study: How the Moonlite Project will use green energy to power bitcoin-mining datacentres

  As the energy consumption habits of the cryptocurrency mining community continue to attract attention, we speak to the The Moonlite Project about how it is embracing renewable energy to clean up the industry’s image

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Colt DCS ramps up renewable power use across European datacentre estate

  Carrier neutral datacentre operator Colt DCS claims the technology industry has a "moral duty" to do more than the bare minimum to ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the environment

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  FBI seeks information on IaaS and SaaS providers as cloud push gathers pace

  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking information about the capabilities of the public cloud provider community, in preparation for move off-premise

• February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

  Cryptocurrency mining consuming more electricity than Iceland’s homes

  Cryptocurrency mining in Iceland could use more power than all the households in the country combined

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  Beyond Brexit: Can the hyperscalers future-proof the growth of the UK colocation market?

  Demand for colocation datacentre space in London is booming, on the back of the hyperscale cloud giants setting up shop in the UK, but will it be enough to safeguard the sector’s growth in the face of Brexit?

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Datacentre infrastructure investments show no signs of slowing

  The 2018 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests datacentre infrastructure revamps could be on the cards at enterprises across the UK and Europe, as the push to consolidate their server farms picks up pace

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  Researchers calculate financial toll of cloud outages on US business sector

  A joint report by Lloyd's of London and AIR Worldwide reveals the financial disruption a three to six-day cloud outage could cause to US-based businesses

• January 24, 2018 24 Jan'18

  Kao Data opens doors on first phase of £200m datacentre campus in Harlow

  Kao London One has a capacity of 8.8MW and is being touted as a good fit for hybrid cloud infrastructures

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Irish planning chiefs dismiss appeal against Amazon's €1bn datacentre build

  Irish planning chiefs have granted Amazon permission to proceed with its plans to build a €1bn datacentre in Dublin to support the continued European growth of its cloud business

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy

  Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a ...

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  Daisy Group saves on datacentre cooling costs through five-year EkkoSense deal

  Daisy Group claims to have already seen sizeable cost savings on the back of its push to improve its datacentre cooling procedures across five UK facilities

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Colt to expand datacentre footprint in APAC

  Datacentre service provider Colt is laying the groundwork to build datacentres in India and Singapore, and is working on new datacentre technologies to improve energy efficiency

• December 20, 2017 20 Dec'17

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2017

  Over the course of 2017, we saw hyperscale cloud giants continuing to invest in their UK presence, as well as Apple’s ongoing planning permission delays in Ireland and the disruption caused by the datacentre downtime from British Airways

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Nordic states innovate to attract global tech players

  The Nordic region is already a hotbed for tech startups and has the ingredients to attract more investment from the established tech giants

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017

• December 15, 2017 15 Dec'17

  AMD hits pay dirt in the cloud with EPYC server platform

  Chipmaker AMD is looking to regain lost ground with its EPYC server platform, and it seems the cloud provider community is getting on board with its plans

• December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17

  US utility provider PG&E on ditching the datacentre and going cloud-first

  US-based utility provider Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) discusses how getting out of the datacentre business and into the cloud is helping meet its regulatory, affordability and innovation targets

• December 01, 2017 01 Dec'17

  Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels urges enterprises to get their encryption act together

  During the closing keynote of AWS Re:Invent 2017, Amazon.com CTO, Werner Vogels, warned enterprises of the perils of overlooking encryption

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  Dutch digital coin miners offered datacentre space to reduce costs

  The Netherlands’ Datacenter Group is providing digital coin miners with space in a professional datacentre

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  HPE hails progress in using AI to build autonomous datacentres

  Hardware giant claims to be the first in the industry to bring artificial intelligence-based infrastructure management software to market that can predict datacentre problems before humans can