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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2022

  The energy crisis has wreaked havoc on the UK datacentre market in various ways this year, with supply and pricing issues blighting operators and their business interests

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  How India is moving towards net zero

  Home-grown companies and multinational firms are doubling down on sustainability efforts, but more needs to be done to improve datacentre efficiency and avoid greenwashing

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Survey: Most want green IT but many won’t get it soon

  IT – and storage in particular – consume huge amounts of energy but sustainability targets are proving to be elusive, according to a survey commissioned by Pure Storage

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  Italy’s biggest datacentre campus to enjoy €500m growth spurt

  Aruba SpA raises funding to help realise ambitions to further grow mega-datacentre campus in Italy

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  AWS CEO urges enterprises to do more in the cloud in the face of economic uncertainty

  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky says enterprises should be looking to do more, not less, in the cloud during times of economic uncertainty

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  AWS commits to becoming the ‘cleanest’ cloud to run enterprise workloads

  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky used the opening keynote at this year’s Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas to outline the company’s commitment to becoming the greenest place for enterprises to run their IT and applications

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  AWS pledges to become a water-positive entity by 2030

  Amazon Web Services has marked the first day of its Re:Invent partner and customer conference by going public with its pledge to become a water-positive entity

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Google signs wind power purchase agreement in pursuit of UK carbon-free energy pledge

  Google claims power purchase agreement with French utility firm will bring it a step closer to being able to power its entire UK operations with carbon-free energy by 2030

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  UK tech sector given four-point plan to cut carbon emissions by more than 80 million tonnes

  According to a report by Tech Nation, leasing renewably powered office space, switching to plant-based food when catering events and curbing business travel would significantly bring down the UK tech sector’s carbon emissions

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Hidden energy cost of on-premise data stores

  Data is said to be the new oil, but organisations may be storing far more than they need – and now there is an energy crisis

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  VMware CEO tells enterprises to become 'cloud-smart' to speed up pace of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the VMware Explore Europe conference, the firm’s CEO shared his observations on how enterprise attitudes to cloud migrations are changing as IT leaders look to pick up the pace of their digital transformation projects

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Gartner Symposium: Welcome to the age of force multipliers

  Tech has always been asked to do more with less. Gartner says that if applied correctly, smart IT decisions offer multiple benefits simultaneously

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Microsoft claims summer heatwave led to no excess water use by its datacentres

  Software giant stokes scandal with befuddling statements about water use, despite eco-transparency pledge

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Microsoft Cloud grows, but less than expected

  CEO Satya Nadella claims the public cloud is the best way to optimise business IT and address rising energy bills

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Apple puts pressure on manufacturing partners to decarbonise their operations through yearly audits

  Consumer electronics giant wants its global supply chain partners to follow its lead on becoming a carbon-neutral company

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Castrol to open datacentre immersion cooling test facility at Berkshire HQ

  BP-owned lubricant brand has unveiled the next phase in its work to accelerate adoption of immersion cooling technologies in datacentres

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Oil giant Shell lends support to LF Energy in its open source power networks push

  Open source community LF Energy is continuing to go from strength-to-strength as its push to transform the way power networks operate gathers pace

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Equinix to open new datacentre in Indonesia

  Equinix’s new facility in Indonesia follows a slew of datacentre builds that have been sprouting up in Jakarta to cater to the country’s growing digital economy

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Datacentre operators urged to tighten up their carbon emissions and water usage reporting

  The 12th annual Global Data Center Survey from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute suggests the industry has work to do to improve its reporting on sustainability, as regulation looms large

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  SAP users ramp up ESG efforts

  The UK & Ireland SAP User Group is developing a special interest group to help their members hit their ESG goals more effectively

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  UK drought: Thames Water asks datacentres to consider using 'raw water' to cool their sites

  Utility provider Thames Water is probing the water consumption habits of datacentres within its jurisdiction, as it seeks collaboration opportunities with the server farm industry to ease pressure on supplies

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  OVO Energy-backed Kaluza taps up Google Cloud for carbon-negative push

  SaaS-based energy tech platform provider sets out how it is using Google Cloud to help achieve its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Rising energy costs erode competitive edge of colocation datacentre operators

  Research from temporary power generation equipment maker Aggreko highlights toll that rising energy costs are having on colocation datacentre operators

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Datacentre sector hits back at claims that West London electricity grid capacity crunch is its fault

  Reports citing the rapid rise of West London as a major datacentre hub as the cause of a potential ban on new housing developments in the area have not gone down well with industry watchers

• August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

  Microsoft hails success of hydrogen fuel cell trial at its New York datacentre

  Microsoft has opened up about how its efforts to replace the diesel backup generators in its datacentres is progressing

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Singapore to restart datacentre builds with sustainability focus

  The Singapore government is running a pilot exercise to drive the sustainable development of new datacentres following a moratorium on datacentre builds

• July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22

  UK heatwave sparks cooling system meltdown in Google’s and Oracle’s London datacentre regions

  The extreme heat experienced by the UK this week had a detrimental impact on the cooling systems of two of the cloud world’s biggest players

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  EC urged to rejig green power strategy to include greater use of energy storage tech

  Ten stakeholders from the world of energy storage systems have penned an open letter to the European Commission’s policymakers, urging them to factor in their technology to the EC’s green transition plans

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Schneider Electric reinforces commitment to addressing datacentre skills gap with new courses

  Datacentre energy management company is adding more courses to its free online training portal to help close industry skills gap

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Ordnance Survey research reveals sustainability projects as hot for software developers

  According to research by Ordnance Survey, sustainability projects are emerging as hot zones for software developers, attracted by the chance to do some good as well as make good money

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  Microsoft to roll out grid-interactive UPS tech to its Dublin datacentre

  Software giant plans to support Ireland’s transition to a carbon-free energy society by making its datacentre’s backup power sources available for use to the country’s national grid

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  UK-based datacentre liquid cooling firm Iceotope Technologies secures £30m funding

  Sheffield-based datacentre liquid cooling firm wins funding from environment-focused global investment syndicate

• July 05, 2022 05 Jul'22

  High Court quashes planning permission extension for Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build

  After securing additional planning permission for the site of its now-abandoned datacentre build last year, Apple has seen the offer withdrawn by the High Court – which may complicate how it sells the land on

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Google Cloud expands availability and scope of IT sustainability tracking tools for enterprises

  The Google Cloud Sustainability Summit sees the public cloud giant ramp up its support for enterprises wanting to minimise the environmental impact of their operations

• June 27, 2022 27 Jun'22

  Sustainable Norwegian colocation firm Green Mountain expands to the UK with Infinity SDC buyout

  Infinity SDC has sold off its Romford facility to Norwegian colocation player, Green Mountain, whose backers claim the move will change the way other UK-based operators approach sustainability

• June 24, 2022 24 Jun'22

  Castrol and Submer form partnership to popularise use of immersion cooling in datacentres

  BP-owned Castrol has agreed to work with immersion cooling specialist Submer to bring to market next-generation cooling fluids for use in datacentres

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  HPE commits to achieving net-zero business goals 10 years ahead of schedule

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise is doubling down on its climate change commitments by vowing to cut its greenhouse gas emissions at an accelerated pace

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  Non-European tech giants could be subject to EU-backed anti-greenwashing directive

  EU-backed push to tighten up the sustainability reporting processes for companies that do business in Europe gathers pace

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  UK senior business leaders lack confidence in quality of ESG data, research shows

  A global poll of senior business leaders reveals the UK is doing better than other countries in terms of how its organisations report ESG data, but there is still room for improvement

• June 13, 2022 13 Jun'22

  The inauguration of LUMI: Europe's most powerful supercomputer launches

  A former paper mill in Finland is now home to the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will help researchers across Europe accelerate their scientific breakthroughs in the fields of climate change and medicine

• June 13, 2022 13 Jun'22

  New UK digital strategy aims to secure future growth for £150bn digital economy

  Government publishes plan that brings together existing and new initiatives intended to expand the digital sector and help to establish the UK as a ‘superpower’ in science and tech

• June 10, 2022 10 Jun'22

  Datavita to open Scotland’s first metro datacentre in Glasgow during Q3 2022

  Datacentre operator Datavita is building a server farm in the heart of Glasgow’s financial district

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Schneider Electric: IT industry must address 'sustainability action gap' to fight global warming

  Research commissioned and compiled by Schneider Electric reveals industry-wide disconnect between words and actions on sustainability

• June 03, 2022 03 Jun'22

  How digital twins can improve datacentre operations

  Singapore’s Red Dot Analytics has built an AI-powered digital twin platform that lets datacentre operators simulate their operations to manage their carbon footprint and energy consumption, among other uses

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to enter general availability in June 2022

  Microsoft has confirmed its sustainability-focused suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools is set to enter general availability from June 2022

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Investment in UK ‘cleantech’ sector hit new high in 2021 as climate change concerns rise

  Investment in companies that make technologies designed to help society more sustainable is on the rise across Europe, and in the UK, too

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Dublin datacentre operators warned of climate change-related coastal flooding risks

  A 3D data visualisation map from Cervest shows large swathes of Dublin could be affected by climate change-related coastal flooding in the years to come, which could have big implications for the region's datacentres

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Kao Data debuts datacentre education programme for seven-to-11-year-olds

  Harlow-based colocation provider wants to help teach children about the important role datacentres play in our society, in the hope that it might inspire some of them to pursue a career in the field of server farms

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  AWS embarks on green power-focused deals with AES and Fluence Energy

  Amazon Web Services is beginning two green energy-focused collaborations that will see it ramp up the amount of renewable power it uses while helping other enterprises to do the same