Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
Learn how to green your datacentre with advice on increasing datacentre energy efficiency, building a case for a sustainable datacentre, and complying with UK and EU energy-efficiency regulations.
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News
20 Dec 2024
Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light
The government has granted the developers of a proposed datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, permission to press ahead with the project after the local council blocked the plans on Green Belt protection grounds Continue Reading
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Opinion
19 Dec 2024
IT Sustainability Think Tank: The energy challenge of AI datacentres in 2024 and beyond
The soaring enterprise demand for AI services is causing all sorts of problems for datacentre operators and their sustainability goals, which will need addressing in 2025 Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Nov 2020
Under the microscope: Different datacentre sustainability strategies
In this guest post, Kyle Myers, director of environmental health, safety and sustainability at colocation giant CyrusOne on why the colocation community needs to look beyond carbon reduction ... Continue Reading
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News
03 Nov 2020
OVHcloud doubles down on sustainability with carbon reduction pledges
OVHcloud emerges as the latest cloud provider to reinforce its commitment to ensuring the growth of its business does not come at the expense of the environment Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2020
Datacentre sustainability a work in progress in ASEAN
Sustainability efforts have not kept pace with the growing demand for datacentre and co-location services in Southeast Asia Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2020
Interxion invests in growing its Austrian colocation presence with Vienna campus expansion
Digital Realty-owned colocation giant Interxion is continuing to build out its European datacentre footprint, having acquired a parcel of land in Vienna to expand its Austrian server farm footprint Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2020
CyrusOne to prioritise water preservation across global colocation estate in sustainability push
Global colocation giant makes good on its promise to publish first sustainability report into its operations, which contains commitments to curb the amount of water its facilities consume locally Continue Reading
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News
12 Oct 2020
H&M Group signs multi-year colocation deal with Swedish eco-friendly operator in sustainability push
Clothes retailer H&M has signed a hosting deal, covering all of Northern Europe, with green datacentre operators EcoDataCenter, as its sustainability push continues apace Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2020
Datacentre sustainability tipped to become competitive differentiator for colo community by 2023
Schneider Electric marks 2020 Innovation Summit with release of joint report with 451 Research into global datacentre market’s attitudes towards sustainability Continue Reading
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News
29 Sep 2020
Sustaining Google Cloud: How Covid-19 and green issues are shaping enterprise take-up across Europe
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian marks the start of the firm’s five-week EMEA-focused user conference by discussing how the coronavirus is affecting enterprises’ digital transformation priorities Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2020
CyrusOne goes public with pledge to become carbon-neutral provider by 2040
Global colocation provider CyrusOne has pledged to become a carbon-neutral operator by 2040 Continue Reading
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Podcast
22 Sep 2020
Gender pay gap, undersea datacentre, digital mapping – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss the gender pay gap, undersea datacentre experimentation and digital mapping Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2020
Microsoft hails heightened reliability of servers run in sub-sea datacentres
Microsoft concludes multi-year research project into practicalities of running underwater datacentres with positive findings about the sustainability and reliability of sub-sea server farms Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2020
BP and Microsoft extend cloud deal with clean energy agreement
Companies aim to join forces to provide clean energy for Azure datacentres, smart cities and other energy consumers Continue Reading
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News
14 Sep 2020
Google commits to sustainability and erasing its carbon footprint
Tech giant Google will develop tools to help datacentre managers measure and reduce the company’s carbon footprint Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Sep 2020
CTO interview: Octopus Energy on using cloud power to get consumers to flip the switch on renewables
Octopus Energy is on a mission to disrupt the global energy market, and is banking on the AWS cloud and an innovative software licensing agreement to help it do just that Continue Reading
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Opinion
26 Aug 2020
The path towards sustainable sustainability
More enterprises need to build sustainability ecosystems, incorporate sustainability into their business strategy and develop sustainability policies Continue Reading
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News
19 Aug 2020
Equinix confirms review under way into UPS failure at Docklands datacentre
Colocation giant says it is undertaking a review into the power outage that blighted users of its Docklands facility to guard against it occurring again Continue Reading
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Answer
12 Aug 2020
How is SAP Climate 21 meant to reduce CO2 emissions?
SAP released program to help companies go green and achieve better sustainability. Here's a look at Climate 21 and its Product Carbon Footprint Analytics. Continue Reading
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News
12 Aug 2020
Beyond.pl plots Polish datacentre campus expansion to capitalise on growing continental cloud demand
Polish colocation provider Beyond.pI says expansion plans are in direct response to growing demand for sustainably powered datacentre capacity in central Europe Continue Reading
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News
06 Aug 2020
Octopus Energy selects AWS as cloud provider to power its global expansion plans
UK-based energy market challenger Octopus Energy has named Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider, as it gears up for further global expansion Continue Reading
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News
05 Aug 2020
Egypt’s datacentre plans take key step forward
Government lays the foundations for a datacentre industry with its new data protection law Continue Reading
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News
30 Jul 2020
Costs incurred by 'major' datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research shows
The Uptime Institute's latest datacentre market survey reveals major outages are costing operators more to bounce back from Continue Reading
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News
27 Jul 2020
NGD’s mega-colocation campus in Wales acquired by Vantage Data Centers
US-based colocation firm continues its European expansion by snapping up Next Generation Data’s Newport campus Continue Reading
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News
22 Jul 2020
Microsoft targets diesel backup power to reduce emissions
As it pushes towards becoming carbon neutral, Microsoft has started to look at how it can replace backup power generators in its datacentres Continue Reading
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News
21 Jul 2020
BMW Group signs six-year HPC contract with eco-friendly Swedish colocation firm
Motor manufacturer agrees to double-down on its use of EcoDataCenter's environmentally friendly colocation facilities Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Jul 2020
Coronavirus: How Covid-19 has elevated the status of the datacentre industry
The pandemic has served to highlight just how dependent the world is on the datacentre community – and governments, policy-makers and investors are taking note Continue Reading
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Podcast
30 Jun 2020
Digital art, datacentre futures and diversity – The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Clare McDonald, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna discuss digital art, Covid-19’s likely lasting impact on the datacentre industry, and the lack of progress in diversity in IT Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2020
SoftIron aims at data too valuable for commodity storage
UK array maker hopes to be the storage provider of choice for those that really value their data, with highly optimised Ceph-powered hardware aimed at HPC users and enterprises Continue Reading
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News
18 Jun 2020
Datacentre investment boost as Norway’s government reinstates tax relief
Government reinstates datacentre energy tax relief for cryptocurrency mining organisations after investments in the country’s datacentres drops Continue Reading
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News
10 Jun 2020
Google partners with WWF Sweden to dig even deeper into fashion industry's sustainability habits
Google is doubling down on its efforts to support the fashion industry in cleaning up the environmental friendliness of its supply chains through its partnership with WWF Sweden Continue Reading
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News
09 Jun 2020
Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition
The sector building and supporting the Netherlands’ digital infrastructure wants to be valued as highly as Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are for the Dutch economy Continue Reading
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News
09 Jun 2020
Kao Data courts hyperscale tenants for Harlow-based mega-datacentre
Kao Data rolls out ‘built-to-suit’ service for prospective hyperscale clients, that it claims will speed up the time it takes to bring online new datacentre capacity in a cost-effective way Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2020
OVHcloud brings healthcare-focused private cloud offering to UK market
French infrastructure-as-a-service provider OVHcloud is making its sector-specific portfolio of private cloud and bare metal services available to UK-based healthcare providers Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2020
Interxion cuts energy cooling costs by 20% in West London datacentre through EkkoSense deployment
Digital Realty-owned Interxion said deployment’s success will pave the way for similar roll-outs of EkkoSense technology in other facilities within its portfolio across Europe Continue Reading
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E-Zine
02 Jun 2020
What will be the IT security priorities of the post-coronavirus world?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, with the working world after the pandemic set to be very different, we assess the IT security priorities for the ‘new normal’. Facial recognition firms are racing to identify people wearing face masks. And how did Europe’s telecoms networks cope with the switch to remote working? Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
26 May 2020
Can Lady Gaga and Madonna get people to take IT security seriously?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, after hackers threatened to release data from a US law firm’s celebrity clients, will people finally take cyber security seriously? Designing software for older users makes systems better for all – we examine how. And the IT chief at TSB explains how the bank recovered from its 2018 IT disaster. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 May 2020
Coronavirus: Hardening up datacentre equipment supply chains post-Covid-19
Fears about hardware shortages, staff absenteeism and how to keep sites up and running with social distancing have dogged the datacentre sector since the start of the pandemic, so how is the sector faring? Continue Reading
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Feature
14 May 2020
Datacentre liquid cooling: What needs to happen for it to become commonplace in colocation?
As demand for increasingly dense racks and compute-heavy workloads increases within datacentres, could this lead to a wholesale shift in preference from air-to-liquid-based cooling systems? If so, at what cost to the environment? Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2020
AWS vs Microsoft: US JEDI contract dispute develops into war of words between tech giants
Amazon and Microsoft are embroiled in a ‘battle of the blogs’ over the former’s continued efforts to get its claims that it lost out on a major US cloud contract due to ‘significant political interference’ fully investigated Continue Reading
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News
06 May 2020
Sustainability credentials of underground datacentre in Norway lure green investment fund
Norway’s Lefdal Mining Datacenter has designs on becoming Europe's largest server farm, and its green credentials have secured further investment to help it reach its goal Continue Reading
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Podcast
05 May 2020
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 56
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Sebastian Klovig Skelton to discuss the 20th anniversary of the Love Bug virus, Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism, the rise of virtual events in the wake of Covid-19 and Amazon’s difficulties with striking warehouse workers, concerning the virus Continue Reading
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News
04 May 2020
Digital Realty doubles down on sustainability with pledge to cut carbon emissions by 2030
Colocation giant Digital Realty is embarking on a 10-year, business-wide carbon emissions reduction quest, led by climate science Continue Reading
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News
24 Apr 2020
Dark data is contributing to carbon emissions
Almost six million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere this year as a result of dark data, Veritas research finds Continue Reading
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News
23 Apr 2020
Datacentre M&A closed deal values exceed last year’s total just three months into 2020
Latest market tracker data shows rebound in datacentre M&A deal values as enterprises look to outsource more of their IT and move to the cloud Continue Reading
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News
22 Apr 2020
Google creates datacentre task scheduler to limit non-urgent work to peak renewable energy periods
Google lifts lid on how it is using forecast data to ensure non-urgent compute workloads within its datacentres are carried out at peak supply times for renewable energy Continue Reading
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News
07 Apr 2020
Coronavirus: Microsoft Azure suffers datacentre capacity shortages in Europe
Microsoft is working to “expedite” additional datacentre capacity after reports of users struggling to access resources due to coronavirus demand surge. But how easy will that be amid a global pandemic? Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2020
DCMS creates datacentre-focused resiliency team to keep UK online during coronavirus outbreak
Tech trade body TechUK reveals further details of the work going on behind the scenes at government level to ensure datacentre operators have access to the resources they need to cope with the surge in businesses and consumers accessing online services Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2020
Global spend on enterprise datacentre kit and private clouds down 1% in 2019
Market tracker data from Synergy Research Group reveals continued decline in spending on private datacentres, while investments in kit destined for use in public cloud facilities continues to soar Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Mar 2020
Edge computing environments: what you need to know
An edge case in business sits at the limits of what's viable, and edge computing requirements suggest a similar struggle Continue Reading
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News
23 Mar 2020
Coronavirus: Sellafield workers ordered to stay home as ‘controlled shutdown’ of site accelerates
Staff email warns that “decisions” made now in response to coronavirus pandemic could have far-reaching consequences for ongoing efforts to decommission former nuclear power plant Continue Reading
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News
23 Mar 2020
Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online
TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak Continue Reading
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News
18 Mar 2020
Covid-19: Uptime Institute advises operators to suspend non-essential datacentre projects
Datacentre resiliency think-tank issues 18-page guidance to help operators protect staff during the coronavirus pandemic while keeping their facilities ticking over Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Mar 2020
Lean, mean and green: The datacentres of the future
Working out how to develop more efficient datacentres in an increasingly resource-hungry world is not easy, but it is possible Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2020
Virtus confirms Q2 go-live date for next two datacentres, as expansion plans gather pace
Virtus Data Centres is making good on its datacentre expansion plans, which have been previously billed as among the biggest construction projects ever embarked upon by a colocation provider Continue Reading
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News
10 Mar 2020
University of Hertfordshire and Goonhilly hail deep learning-led UK mapping data breakthrough
Tech tie-up paves the way for creation of UK mapping data that is free from cloud cover for the first time Continue Reading
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E-Zine
03 Mar 2020
What will points-based immigration mean for IT recruitment?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the government’s new points-based immigration rules and assess the implications for the tech sector. IR35 tax rules change in April – we find out how IT contractors need to prepare. And we examine whether the rise of cloud is really displacing the datacentre. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Mar 2020
Datacentres operators must move away from diesel backup generators to give back to grid
While the diesel backup generators used by datacentre operators have a limited environmental impact, using them for extended periods of time to power sites to feed energy back into the grid is not a sustainable solution to growing electricity demand Continue Reading
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News
28 Feb 2020
Greenpeace urges AWS, Google and Microsoft to cut cloud ties with oil and gas customers
Environmental group wants three of the public cloud market’s biggest players to stop selling their technology to oil and gas companies – but will they? Continue Reading
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Podcast
25 Feb 2020
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 48
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss tech billionaires pledging to solve climate change, M&S smart lighting and open data in the EU Continue Reading
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News
20 Feb 2020
Executive interview: Making IT sustainable
Defra recently reported that “cloud-first” IT strategies are driving green information and communications technology in government. This puts a greater emphasis on datacentre transparency Continue Reading
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News
18 Feb 2020
Amazon employee activists dismiss Jeff Bezos’ $10bn pledge to combat climate change
Outspoken environmental activists working at Amazon dismiss CEO’s $10bn climate change pledge by pointing out firm’s ties to oil and gas market Continue Reading
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E-Zine
11 Feb 2020
How the Post Office caused so much misery
In this week’s Computer Weekly, after a landmark legal victory against the Post Office over a faulty IT system, campaigner Alan Bates shares his 20-year story of trials and triumph. Oracle is under fire over its cloud sales practices – we examine the claims. And we look at the sustainability challenges for datacentres. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2020
From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid
With the government ramping up plans to go net zero on carbon emissions by 2050, where does the datacentre industry stand – and how can it become more sustainable over the coming years? Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2020
Private equity players fuelled record number of datacentre mergers and acquisitions in 2019
While the number of deals being struck in the datacentre market hits new highs, the average deal size shrinks for the second year in a row Continue Reading
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News
24 Jan 2020
HPE joins Swiss-backed bid to 'decarbonise' datacentres across the world
HPE has joined forces with tech leaders and academics in Switzerland to support the take-up of a datacentre accreditation geared towards improving the energy efficiency of server farms worldwide Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Jan 2020
Mixing it up: Cloud and datacentre in the new world of IT
Cloud computing has long been tipped as the technology that will displace enterprise datacentres in CIOs’ affections, but that is not quite how the story is playing out Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jan 2020
Davos 2020: Tech sector and the climate change challenge
Last week Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella, made the headlines, with an audacious plan to eradicate the company’s historic carbon footprint, by reversing all its emissions since 1975. As political ... Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2020
Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north
Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2020
Davos 2020: Why IT sector must address climate issues
Climate change is set to be top of the agenda at the World Economic Forum, with Microsoft chief Satya Nadella declaring he aims to delete the company’s emissions Continue Reading
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News
14 Jan 2020
What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?
Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital? Continue Reading
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Opinion
14 Jan 2020
Putting edge computing centre stage in the UK’s fourth industrial revolution
The fourth industrial revolution will see every sector become a data-driven digital sector, with computing at the edge – which has power implications Continue Reading
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News
27 Dec 2019
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019 Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Dec 2019
From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid
With the government ramping up plans to go net zero on carbon emissions by 2050, where does the datacentre industry stand – and how can it become more sustainable over the coming years? Continue Reading
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News
04 Dec 2019
AWS fleshes out edge computing strategy with hyper-local datacentre hubs planned in major cities
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to supplement its ‘mega’ datacentre regions with smaller cloud data processing hubs in major cities to support enterprises requiring low-latency connections to its compute and storage resources Continue Reading
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News
03 Dec 2019
AWS plans renewable energy project in Australia
AWS’s renewable energy project in Australia is one of six projects that the cloud supplier is spearheading to reduce its global carbon footprint Continue Reading
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News
18 Nov 2019
How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency
Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack Continue Reading
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E-Zine
07 Nov 2019
CW Benelux: Dutch banks fight money laundering
Dutch banks are sharing expertise and resources to help reduce money laundering through their accounts. Also read in this issue how companies could lose loyal IT staff because salary rises do not match those at rival employers, and why a Dutch province is pioneering a no-code software development platform. Continue Reading
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News
05 Nov 2019
TechUK calls on datacentre sector to scale up climate change action efforts
Tech trade body TechUK claims the datacentre sector must do more to tackle climate change, and assist the government with its pledge to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 Continue Reading
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Podcast
05 Nov 2019
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – episode 35
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team pick over the finale of Channel 4 reality show The Circle, talk General Election tech and find out why enterprises are not prepared to pay a premium for business applications infused with AI Continue Reading
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News
05 Nov 2019
Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards: The winners
Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2019 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona Continue Reading
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News
25 Oct 2019
Defra sustainable ICT paper highlights datacentre water crisis
A new paper on sustainable ICT published by Defra in conjunction with the IT industry has identified the areas of e-waste that need urgent attention Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2019
Assessing the aftermath of Apple’s abortive effort to build its Irish datacentre
The site Apple had earmarked as a prime location for one of its first non-US datacentres is up for sale, but what will become of the site and the community that supported the tech giant through its four-year battle to get the server farm built? Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2019
Government IT hosting providers fail to provide emissions data
Cloud computing is driving the government’s IT and sustainable tech strategy, but cloud and hosting providers are unable to divulge emissions data Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2019
All change: How big data could shake up cloud strategies and fuel demand for edge environments
As enterprise data volumes continue to grow and grow, for cost and performance reasons, enterprises might find an all-in approach to public cloud may not be the way forward, according to several NetEvents panellists Continue Reading
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News
03 Oct 2019
Southern Water embarks on £15m datacentre modernisation programme
Southern Water has enlisted the help of service provider MTI Technology to revamp its datacentres, with a greater emphasis on the use of software-defined processes and hyper-converged technologies Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2019
German police seize darkweb servers from datacentre housed in ex-NATO bunker
Following a lengthy investigation, law enforcers in Germany have raided a datacentre in an ex-NATO bunker that is alleged to have been hosting illicit websites on the dark web Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2019
HPE refurbishes legacy IT assets to make money for users
HPE Financial Services is giving old IT assets a new lease of life at its tech renewal site in Erskine, near Glasgow, as part of a promotion of the circular economy Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2019
Amsterdam new-build datacentre ban is not an ‘attack’ on operators, says government
Dutch Data Center Association says a government official has offered written assurances that the temporary ban on new server farms in two areas of Amsterdam is just designed to spur adoption of sustainable growth habits Continue Reading
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24 Sep 2019
Unpicking the datacentre industry’s complicated relationship with climate change
The energy usage habits of datacentres often see the sector labelled as a contributor to climate change, but the situation is far more nuanced than that, it seems. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
24 Sep 2019
Climate change – the challenge for datacentres
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the impact of climate change on datacentres as potential victims and contributors to the problem. We look at the rise of voice channels and how IT leaders can use the technology for better customer experience. And we ask what lessons must be learned from Ecuador’s citizens’ data breach. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
20 Sep 2019
Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation
Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage Continue Reading
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News
20 Sep 2019
Google pairs ‘record-breaking’ green energy deal with European datacentre expansion commitment
Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly commits to expanding the company’s datacentre footprint in Europe and gives details of its largest-ever renewable energy purchase Continue Reading
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Podcast
17 Sep 2019
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 30
The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team returns from its brief summer hiatus to discuss HPE’s hardware refresh processes, the financial services industry’s changing relationship with cloud and a charity that is helping people with chronic illnesses find work in tech Continue Reading
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News
16 Sep 2019
DigiPlex to build two green datacentres near Oslo by the end of 2020
Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex has set itself an ambitious target of bringing two new datacentres online near Oslo by the end of 2020 Continue Reading
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News
12 Sep 2019
Digital Realty expands Docklands datacentre campus by opening Cloud House colocation facility
Colocation giant expands datacentre campus in London’s Docklands and publishes research hinting at the economic benefits it could help to generate Continue Reading
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News
12 Sep 2019
Kao Data secures EMBL-EBI as tenant as bid to become leading life sciences colo gathers pace
Essex-based wholesale datacentre operator Kao Data’s bid to become the colocation provider of choice for the life sciences community sees it secure the European Bioinformatics Institute as a client Continue Reading
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E-Zine
12 Sep 2019
CW Europe: Dutch authorities call temporary halt to datacentre construction
Two Dutch municipalities are putting all datacentre construction on hold while they put together a strategy to help them control developments. A local alderman said datacentres take up a lot of space and place a large burden on the electricity grid. Also read how France is racing ahead of Germany in making the most of service companies in India, and about Google’s plans for a new datacentre and technology training hub in Finland. Continue Reading
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News
09 Sep 2019
Green energy developer earmarks Scotland for 'world's first' ocean-powered datacentre
Plans are underway for a hyperscale-focused datacentre to be built in the north of Scotland, which its developers claim would be the first in the world to be powered by tidal energy Continue Reading
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News
02 Sep 2019
Nordic greentech attracts investment
The Nordic region is seeing digital innovation across a diverse range of sectors and, not surprisingly, a region known for its green credentials also has a burgeoning green technology (greentech) sector Continue Reading
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News
27 Aug 2019
Ireland’s power network needs €9bn investment by 2027 to sustain datacentre sector, claims report
Report by the Irish Academy of Engineering highlights how the expansion of Ireland’s datacentre industry has contributed to it becoming the country's biggest source of growth in terms of energy demand Continue Reading
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News
20 Aug 2019
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 Continue Reading