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EdgeConneX has shared that it is now powering all of its global data centers with 100% renewable energy. The company noted that it has achieved 100% carbon neutrality for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions as a result, with a significant 44% reduction in Scope 3 emissions.The company was reportedl...

Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik c...

In New Zealand, Aventuur, a leisure park developer, has shared plans to heat a surfing lagoon using a solar-powered data center. The company is already in the process of building a surf park in Perth, Australia, which, it has outlined, is set to open in 2025. In Auckland, meanwhile, it's plann...

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy for wind energy in North Carolina. Through the deal, the giant will offtake the full capacity from the Timbermill Wind project, which is in the process of being built. Located in Chowan County, the project will offer 18...

Orange Romania has shared that it has signed a six-year virtual PPA with Engie. As per the agreement, 30GWh of the telco's annual electricity needs will be met with energy from solar. This deal aligns with Orange's broader goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 and brings Romania into the...

Atea has announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Better Energy for solar energy in Denmark. This agreement aligns with its target to be carbon neutral by 2030. Through this PPA, the company will offtake energy from the development, expected to be around one-t...

Amazon has announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clean Energy Connect (CEC), a solar power company in the Itochu group for solar energy. Through the 20-year corporate PPA, CEC will invest more than 10 billion yen ($75 million) by 2024 for the development of small ...

WeTransfer has said it cut its server emissions by 78 per cent in 2022. This comes following the company's 2020 pledge to reduce its emissions by 30 percent by 2025, and its migration to AWS in 2011. The company reportedly achieved "carbon-neutral certification," after using AWS' Customer Carb...

Orange has installed over 200 solar panels at its Timișoara, Romania data center, it has announced. This is in addition to deployments at its data center in Constanța and Braşov, taking the total to 650 solar panels that are installed and operational. The deployment will reportedly bring 100k...

In Oregon, Cascade Locks port authority has announced the decision to discontinue Roundhouse Digital Infrastructure's $100 million data center project in the Columbia River Gorge. The startup had planned to build a 10MW data center targeting "niche government and energy industry" clients. Howe...

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel has shared that it has obtained the permits to begin work on its new data center in the heritage section of Vancouver's Harbour Centre. The company shared that the project is still in its preconstruction phase, but that construction will commence in August 2023, ...

Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the c...

Equinix has announced that, through a partnership with a number of different companies, it will connect to a new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany. In collaboration with Vonovia, AS Enterprise, and EB-SIM, the group aims to build a heating network for the bizonal residential area ...

AtlasEdge, has entered into a strategic partnership with Northshore to implement an operational sustainability strategy and execution plan. According to the company, the technology-enabled engineering company will assist it in ensuring that data collection and validation processes are streaml...

Vodafone has signed a PPA with Iberdrola for 410GWh of annual solar spread across Spain, Portugal, and Germany, as part of the company's wider net-zero ambitions. The renewable energy comes from three solar plants, the Velilla solar PV plant located in Palencia, Spain, the Cedillo PV plant lo...

Telenor has announced the signing of a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Statkraft for wind energy in Finland. Through the deal, the company will procure the output of the energy firm's Palokangas wind farm.According to the company, the agreement will cover 80 percent of Telenor's F...

Iron Mountain has signed a 24/7 PPA agreement with Rye Development, a US hydropower developer, for 150 ME of power over the next ten years from a number of the developer's low-impact hydroelectric projects. Rye Development seeks to integrate power generation capabilities into existing dams wi...

Microsoft has teamed up with Constellation to reduce the carbon footprint of one of its data centers in Boydton, Virginia. By signing an hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement with the energy producer, Microsoft's Boydton facility will receive up to 35 percent in environmental attribute...

Ampere, a chip startup, has launched new family of data center chips, which are pegged to make data centers more energy efficient and climate-friendly. Headquartered in the Bay Area, the company's solution is based on designs from Arm Holdings, the same technology used in mobile phones. This ...

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new 24x7 hourly matching agreement with Powerex Corp for carbon-free energy at its new data center in Washington state. The energy company will match the giant's hourly demand with direct deliveries of carbon-free hydro, solar, and wind power on a ...