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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• 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

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Budget 2017: TechUK demands datacentre energy reform to stop post-Brexit market slump

  TechUK airs fears over long-term growth and prosperity of UK datacentre market post-Brexit, without urgent government help on rising energy costs

• November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17

  AI is playing an ‘extremely important’ role in hybrid cloud, says Nutanix

  Artificial intelligence is a key factor in hybrid cloud because it provides better manageability of large amounts of data, Nutanix conference told

• November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17

  DBS teams up with Equinix to reduce datacentre footprint

  Building on earlier efforts to harness cloud computing to support growing compute workloads, DBS’s new private cloud datacentre will be smaller, greener and cheaper to run

• November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17

  OpenStack flags edge computing as ‘surprise’ emerging use case for open source cloud tech

  OpenStack Foundation executive director, Jonathan Bryce, admits to being caught on the back-foot by the growing number of enterprises using its software to build edge computing environments

• November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17

  Irish High Court denies latest appeal bid by Apple datacentre objectors

  Judge rules that latest attempt to block Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry does not meet the required legal threshold

• October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17

  Meath County Council CEO explains support for Facebook’s Irish datacentre expansion plans

  Jackie Maguire, CEO of Meath County Council, shares details of the preparatory work the local authority has done to pave the way for Facebook to expand its Irish datacentre presence

• October 24, 2017 24 Oct'17

  IT department keeps Volvo Ocean Race sailors connected around the world

  As seven yachts compete in the latest Volvo Ocean Race, the IT team supporting the event is engaged in a race of its own

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  A tenth of datacentre managers shun use of DCIM tools, survey finds

  The findings of a new report by Siemens and Intel suggests datacentre managers are taking a reactive approach to keeping on monitoring and managing the health of their infrastructure

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing

  Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void

• October 12, 2017 12 Oct'17

  Apple wins Irish court backing for €850m datacentre in Athenry

  After more than two years of planning delays and appeals, the Irish court has quashed two legal challenges to Apple’s plan to build a datacentre in the west Ireland town of Athenry

• October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17

  Sweden wins blockchain datacentre investment

  Sweden attracts more datacentre investment with a blockchain company selecting the country for its next datacentre

• October 09, 2017 09 Oct'17

  Italian cloud provider banks on Brexit to fill country’s largest datacentre campus

  Campus will be powered by on-site renewable energy sources as Aruba sets sights on securing tenants displaced by the UK’s EU departure

• October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17

  Brother moves core internal applications to Amazon cloud

  Manufacturer Brother has moved its back-office and customer-facing systems to the Amazon cloud using public and hybrid models

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  Virtus sets out plans to build London’s largest datacentre campus

  Colocation provider outlines the next phase of its expansion plans, which will see it build out its presence in west London

• September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17

  Outcome of Amazon Irish datacentre planning appeal potentially delayed until November

  Amazon faces having to wait up to two months to hear the outcome of an environmental appeal against its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin

• September 21, 2017 21 Sep'17

  Ireland mulls datacentre planning review to help others avoid Apple-like build delays

  Speaking at the inaugural Datacloud Ireland event, Irish state minister Patrick Breen outlined the government’s commitment to helping other datacentre operators avoid the planning problems Apple has encountered in Athenry

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Enterprise datacentre operators share staff recruitment challenges in 451 Research report

  New data from 451 Research shines a light on the challenges enterprise datacentre operators face when sourcing staff

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub

  Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: Shortlist announced

  Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, with the winners set to be announced on Tuesday 12 September 2017

• August 18, 2017 18 Aug'17

  Best of VMworld 2017 Awards nominations now open until 31 August

  Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination

• August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17

  Facebook sets out plans to open 10th datacentre by 2019

  Social media giant to build new datacentre in New Albany, Ohio, to future-proof its infrastructure in the face of growing user demand

• August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17

  World's largest’ data center planned in Norway

  Norway will soon have the biggest datacenter in the world which will harness the countries rich natural resources

• August 02, 2017 02 Aug'17

  British Airways online check-in systems hit by another IT failure

  Passengers complain of queues, delays and flight cancellations after airline's check-in systems suffer temporary outage.

• July 31, 2017 31 Jul'17

  Apple's delayed Irish datacentre prompts calls to reform country's planning system

  The latest delays in Apple's bid to open a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, has prompted calls for a revamp of how planning permission decisions in Ireland are handled

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  BP broadens public cloud strategy by adopting Microsoft Azure for data analytics

  Oil and gas giant reveals details of plans to move its proprietary data lake to Microsoft Azure for data processing purposes

• July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17

  What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?

  Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud

• July 20, 2017 20 Jul'17

  Singapore begins quest for high-rise datacentres

  Huawei, Keppel Data Centres and the Singapore government will assess the feasibility of building high-rise facilities amid growing demand for datacentre capacity in the region

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Lack of KPIs shows holes in datacentre efficiency

  Most datacentre operators see the benefits of efficiency metrics, but somehow fail to include them in their key performance indicators

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Apple to build second European datacentre in Denmark later this year

  Consumer electronics giant confirms plans to start building a second, renewably-powered datacentre in Denmark during the fourth quarter of 2017

• July 05, 2017 05 Jul'17

  Equinix expands its European datacentre footprint with AM4 opening in Amsterdam

  Colocation giant is building out its datacentre capacity in Amsterdam by opening another facility, geared towards helping enterprises embrace the multi-cloud consumption model

• July 03, 2017 03 Jul'17

  H&M reinforces commitment to datacentre heat reuse with 1MW Stockholm datacentre build

  The 1MW facility could potentially generate enough heat for 2,500 residential apartments in Stockholm when completed in 2018

• July 03, 2017 03 Jul'17

  Dutch bank cuts compliance data retrieval from weeks to hours

  Rabobank has moved from tape libraries and robotic arms to a platform-based storage and retrieval system to help it comply with regulations

• June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17

  Finnish government scraps paper and digitises archives

  The government in Finland is digitising 94 shelf kilometres of documents to save millions of euros and make the information easier to access

• June 27, 2017 27 Jun'17

  French aeronautics and aerospace manufacturer optimises datacentres

  High-tech manufacturer outsources datacentre management to support its digital transformation

• June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17

  Dubai-based logistics company automates backup through cloud

  Cloud backup and storage automation are key to supporting expansion at Middle East logistics company, CWT-SML

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Case study: Future Facilities trials VR to pinpoint datacentre performance problems

  Datacentre performance simulation software provider Future Facilities opens up about its virtual reality trials, and how the technology could change the way the entire industry operates

• June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17

  Lancaster University begins datacentre research to establish cloud latency causes

  Researchers, in collaboration with Microsoft and others, want to stamp out data processing delays in datacentres to improve user experience and energy efficiency

• June 09, 2017 09 Jun'17

  British Airways IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentre?

  BA has blamed “human error” for its bank holiday datacentre outage, but the Uptime Institute suggests there may be more to it than that

• June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17

  Lloyds bank staff will move to IBM in outsourcing deal

  About 1,500 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group will join IBM as part of an IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement

• June 02, 2017 02 Jun'17

  Telefónica increases use of renewable energy to fight climate change

  Telecoms operator behind UK’s O2 mobile network doubles down on existing commitments to renewable energy sources in the fight against climate change

• June 01, 2017 01 Jun'17

  British Airways confirms investigation under way into bank holiday datacentre power failure

  Airline says investigation will focus on ensuring the IT problems of the bank holiday weekend will never be repeated

• May 30, 2017 30 May'17

  Construction of Amazon's €1bn Dublin datacentre hit by environmental planning appeal

  Amazon's plans to build a €1bn datacentre in Dublin from mid-2017 could be delayed by environmental planning appeal

• May 29, 2017 29 May'17

  Huawei, Keppel team up on AI-powered datacentres

  Huawei and Keppel test the use of artificial intelligence to improve datacentre operations and energy efficiency at a reference site in Singapore

• May 25, 2017 25 May'17

  Open19: LinkedIn's bid to lower barriers to open source datacentre tech adoption gathers pace

  The Open19 Foundation's mission to create new open industry standards for 19-inch servers continues apace

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience

  The New York Philharmonic is digitally archiving millions of documents and making them available online