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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
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April 13, 2022
13
Apr'22
Google Cloud research highlights disconnect between intention and delivery on green IT initiatives
Google Cloud research reveals disconnects between intention, delivery and budgets within businesses across EMEA on sustainability matters
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April 11, 2022
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Apr'22
APAC enterprises are reducing their datacentre footprint
Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are moving from their own datacentres into co-location facilities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and lower their carbon footprint
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April 05, 2022
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Apr'22
HPE offers up progress report on how its space-based supercomputer is performing
Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with
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April 04, 2022
04
Apr'22
Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands
Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country
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April 01, 2022
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Apr'22
Sungard UK in administration: How rising energy costs are impacting the datacentre market
As households brace for another rise in their energy bills, news that the UK arm of Sungard AS has fallen into administration highlights the toll the surge in gas and electricity prices is taking on the datacentre industry
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March 29, 2022
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Mar'22
Rising energy costs blamed as UK arm of colocation firm Sungard AS enters administration
Financial difficulties caused by downturn in demand for its services during the pandemic, coupled with ‘unprecedented’ energy price rises, force Sungard AS into administration in the UK
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March 28, 2022
28
Mar'22
Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend
Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend
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March 16, 2022
16
Mar'22
Facebook owner Meta plots Spanish datacentre build to power ‘metaverse’ strategy
Social media giant Meta wants to put Spain at the ‘heart’ of its vision for how the next-generation of the internet will work, with plans to build a datacentre and a remote working hub
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March 10, 2022
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Mar'22
Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have opened Sweden’s first large-scale HPC hub
Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have pulled off a country first by opening a renewbly-powered HPC datacentre hub in Stockholm, Sweden
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March 09, 2022
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Mar'22
Public sector warned about ‘environmentally unsustainable’ SSD disposal processes
Research from data sanitisation firm Blancco shines a light on the costly and contradictory stance that government IT managers have when it comes to disposing of old solid state drives
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March 01, 2022
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Mar'22
Kao Data expands Harlow datacentre campus by opening second 10MW facility
Kao Data has begun the build-out of its second datacentre on the site of its Harlow campus several months after securing £130m in additional funding to support its expansion
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February 21, 2022
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Feb'22
Website owners urged to adopt ‘eco-standard’ to help cut internet-generated carbon emissions
The Eco-Friendly Web Alliance has set its sights on preventing a further 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide being generated in the next decade by helping website operators to cut emissions
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February 18, 2022
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Feb'22
Amazon drops Elasticsearch name from cloud portfolio after trademark infringement suit concludes
Enterprise open search company Elastic has succeeded in getting Amazon to stop using the name Elasticsearch to describe its distributed search and analytics product
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February 16, 2022
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Feb'22
Uptime Institute to help financial services organisations reduce infrastructure outage risks
Datacentre resiliency think-tank is launching a programme to help financial services organisations reduce the risk of outages happening within their hybrid infrastructure setups
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February 09, 2022
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Feb'22
Adoption of smart grid-ready UPS tech by datacentres tipped for take-off in next four years
IT market watcher Omdia claims the next four years could see a sizeable shift in how datacentres interact with the electricity grid as the use of smart grid-enabled UPS tech becomes more widespread
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February 07, 2022
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Feb'22
Kao Data to expand datacentre footprint by opening 16MW facility in Slough
High-performance computing-focused colocation provider is opening its second datacentre in Slough, Berkshire
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January 24, 2022
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Jan'22
Carbon emissions data to become key factor in cloud purchases by 2025, predicts Gartner
With enterprises across the world looking to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Gartner claims carbon emissions data will become a key factor in the cloud purchasing decisions of IT buyers by 2025
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January 06, 2022
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Jan'22
Amazon and Stellantis embark on multi-year, cloud-focused connected car push
Amazon has signed a series of deals with Fiat’s parent company, focused on enhancing the connected car experience for consumers, as well as improving the sustainability of the online retail giant’s delivery fleet
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December 31, 2021
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Dec'21
Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2021
The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team began the year discussing the online fallout from the storming of the White House and finished it discussing IT and climate change, touching on bees and datacentres along the way
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December 20, 2021
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Dec'21
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021
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December 13, 2021
13
Dec'21
Industry group aims to tackle energy-efficient software development
How many processor cycles does an algorithm use? Can it use less and, if so, how will this reduce overall energy usage and greenhouse emissions?
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December 09, 2021
09
Dec'21
NEXTDC opens edge datacentre on the Sunshine Coast
NEXTDC’s SC1 facility is the first in a series of edge datacentre sites that will provide low-latency services to regional businesses and global linkages
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December 07, 2021
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Dec'21
Government makes £116m pledge to help UK's green-tech firms innovate to fight climate change
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has outlined its commitment to helping UK green-tech businesses bring to market innovations that could help fight climate change
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December 07, 2021
07
Dec'21
Schneider Electric gifts the datacentre industry a five-part sustainability framework
Datacentre power systems specialist has drawn up a framework that it hopes will help the industry standardise its reporting of sustainability metrics
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November 17, 2021
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Nov'21
Average size of hyperscale datacentres is on the rise
Latest data from IT market watcher Synergy Research Group highlights how the number and size of hyperscale datacentres around the world is on the up
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November 17, 2021
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Nov'21
COP26: Lord Maude on using open source to help fight against climate change
Public and private sector organisations need to pool their resources and collaborate to address the climate crisis by using open source technologies, urged Lord Maude during OpenUK’s COP26 event
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November 15, 2021
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Nov'21
UK’s first datacentre-focused University Technical College course makes its debut
Some of the datacentre sector’s biggest players have pooled their resources to help launch the UK’s first industry-specific University Technical College course
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November 12, 2021
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Nov'21
OpenUK debuts carbon-negative datacentre blueprint at COP26
Open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and hardware reuse
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November 09, 2021
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Nov'21
Public cloud use linked to reduced carbon emissions and energy consumption, finds 451 Research
IT analyst house 451 Research claims European enterprises could dramatically improve their sustainability credentials by shuttering their datacentres and moving their business applications to the public cloud
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November 08, 2021
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Nov'21
Irish government confirms datacentre strategy review in revised 2021 climate plan
The Irish government is ramping up its commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but acknowledges hitting its revised up target will be a challenge given the country’s current datacentre growth rate
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November 07, 2021
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Nov'21
Businesses failing to cut carbon footprint of ‘power-hungry’ technology
Tackling the power consumption of datacentres features low on the list of tech leaders’ priorities, but pressures to change are growing
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November 02, 2021
02
Nov'21
Electronic waste excluded from COP26 agenda
Data sanitation industry group calls on UK government to add electronic waste to the climate summit’s agenda
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October 28, 2021
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Oct'21
Benioffs and Salesforce put $300m into combating climate change on eve of COP26
$200m committed to reforestation and restoration efforts, and $100m for non-profits over the next 10 years
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October 27, 2021
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Oct'21
Microsoft: Solving the climate crisis will require moon landing levels of tech innovation
Microsoft’s chief environmental officer says it’s not too late to prevent a climate disaster, but doing so will require a group effort and levels of tech innovation on a par with those needed to put a man on the moon
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October 19, 2021
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Oct'21
Government flags opportunity for re-use of waste datacentre heat in net-zero strategy
UK government's long-awaited net-zero strategy document makes the case for the creation of heat networks that could see waste heat from datacentres used to warm homes and businesses
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October 13, 2021
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Oct'21
Microsoft makes carbon emissions-tracking dashboard generally available to cloud users
Microsoft has confirmed the general availability of a dashboard that will allow enterprises to track the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their cloud usage habits in latest sustainability push
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October 13, 2021
13
Oct'21
Google Cloud renews commitment to helping enterprises decarbonise their IT infrastructure
Public cloud giant is making a series of tools available to users of its off-premise platforms that are designed to help them decarbonise their IT setups
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October 11, 2021
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Oct'21
Oracle commits to growing global datacentre footprint by opening 14 new regions over coming year
Database giant to build out its datacentre presence across the world on the back of growing demand for its cloud infrastructure services
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October 05, 2021
05
Oct'21
Kao Data secures up to £130m in funding to finance colocation datacentre expansions
Harlow-based colocation giant has secure further investment as its expansion plans gather pace
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September 27, 2021
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Sep'21
Private equity cash fuels Nordic datacentre growth
Private equity companies are betting on the Nordic datacentre sector as demand for services in the region accelerates
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September 23, 2021
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Sep'21
European cloud providers are growing revenue but losing market share, Synergy data shows
Latest data from Synergy Research Group highlights changing dynamics within the European cloud market, as the US giants continue to grow their share
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September 23, 2021
23
Sep'21
SSE Renewables teams up with Microsoft for AI-led puffin conservation project on Isle of May
Green energy provider talks up the potential for artificial intelligence technology to help speed up the time it takes to bring new supplies of renewable power onto the grid
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September 14, 2021
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Sep'21
TikTok’s take-off fuels hyperscale datacentre spend by parent company ByteDance
Following its meteoric rise to social media prominence, TikTok’s parent company is confirmed as being the world’s seventh-biggest datacentre spender after just three years of expansion
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September 14, 2021
14
Sep'21
Uptime Institute highlights patchy reporting of water use by datacentre operators
With the water usage habits of datacentres coming under increased scrutiny, research from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute highlights shortcomings in the sector's reporting of how much water facilities use
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September 13, 2021
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Sep'21
Google joins Microsoft and Facebook by pledging to replenish more water than it consumes by 2030
Google is the latest tech giant to go public with its commitment to becoming a water-positive entity
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September 06, 2021
06
Sep'21
Verne Global acquired for £231m as Nordic datacentre investment trend gathers pace
Icelandic colocation firm acquired by digital infrastructure investment fund as demand for datacentre capacity in the Nordics continues to grow
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August 20, 2021
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Aug'21
Facebook vows to replenish more water than it consumes across its global operations by 2030
Social networking giant is following in Microsoft’s footprints by setting itself a goal of becoming a water-positive entity by 2030
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August 11, 2021
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Aug'21
Norway’s government steps up efforts to court overseas datacentre investors and developers
The Norwegian government is making a concerted push to attract more foreign investment into its datacentre sector by talking up the country’s green credentials
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August 09, 2021
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Aug'21
Alliance formed to build modular power-hungry HPC datacentres in energy surplus regions
Green datacentre company Cloud&Heat Technologies has formed an alliance with Earth Wind & Power that will see the pair seek to build scalable, modular datacentres in areas where utility firms are producing surplus energy
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August 04, 2021
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Aug'21
Research points to growing importance of secondary datacentre hubs across Europe in years to come
Datacentrepricing’s half-year look at the growth of the European datacentre market reinforces the rising importance of secondary datacentre hubs across the continent