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Amazon has announced that it has signed another PPA with Iberdrola, through which it will be provided with wind and solar energy from its offshore wind farms in Germany for 1.1 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually. The wind farms, Baltic Eagle and Windanker, will have a total capacity of 476MW and 3...

Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged  50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report hi...

Green Mountain and KMW have formed a 50:50 joint venture to develop a new campus outside of Frankfurt, Germany. The campus has received approval from local authorities, and it is expected that construction will begin on the 25,000 sqm (269,100 sq ft) site, FRA1-Main, in the third quarter of 2...

BT has announced that it has signed a new 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) for renewable energy from the 35MW Blary Hill onshore wind farm, which is located in Kintyre, Scotland. This move aligns with the UK telco's net zero by 2031 target...

At the recent Top 10 Trends of Data Center Facilities conference, Huawei revealed its insights into emerging trends in the data center industry. With the theme of "Smart DC, Building the Green Future," the conference highlighted that to accommodate the exponential growth of data demand, which ...

In Oregon, House Bill 2816, aims to require data centers to utilize renewable energy and reduce their carbon emissions and Amazon is fighting it. The giant has reportedly been lobbying against the bill since it was first introduced, despite its big green pledges and commitment to reach zero ca...

OVHcloud has announced that it will release a full report of Scope 3 emissions produced by its cloud usage beginning this summer. Scope 3 emissions are those which are produced by a company indirectly up and down its value chain, and are increasingly coming under scrutiny. Despite flying under...

HOCHTIEF and infrastructure investor Palladio Partners have announced they have partnered to jointly build and operate a sustainable data center in Heiligenhaus, located in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Work on the 9,000-square-meter site in the Heiligenhaus Innovation Park is to commence t...

Ascenty is the latest signatory of the UN Global Compact (Organization of United Nations) in Brazil, it has been announced. The Global Compact is a voluntary initiative that launched back in 2000 which encourages companies to adopt and promote ten universally accepted principles on human righ...

Microsoft is the latest company to invest in the potential of carbon capture, with the recent announcement that it will buy "carbon removal credits" from CarbonCapture. The company is the owner of Project Bison, which is a direct air capture (DAC) plant in Wyoming, set to open next year. The ...

QScale has announced that it has partnered with Énergir Development for waste heat recovery at the Q01 Campus currently under construction in Lévis, Quebec, Canada. It aims to become one of the largest waste heat recovery providers of its kind in the region. QScale will reportedly supply free...

GDS has announced that it has signed a supplemental agreement with Malaysia-based utility firm Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) to power its data center campus in Malaysia. Through the Electricity Supply Agreement (ESA), the company's Nusajaya Tech Park Phase 1 Data Centers will start operations ...

Keepit has announced it has achieved 100% renewable energy across its data centers located in the Americas and EMEA; it currently operates ten data centers across the U.S., Canada, Germany, the UK, and Denmark. The energy sources that will be utilized come under local renewable energy guarante...

EdgeConneX has announced that it has successfully executed $3.3 billion in “innovative” sustainability-linked financing, which it said will enable the development of critical digital infrastructure to support customers' global data center requirements. For this, JGlobal awarded the company wi...

The Green Grid (TGG) recently announced the launch of its updated tool, which it says will boost data center power consumption by 50%. Total Cost of Ownership Calculation Tool – dubbed tggTCO, reportedly enables the analysis of different liquid cooling methods' impact on a data center's financ...

Joining the swathe of data center operators pushing forward circular economy principles, nLighten recently signed a Letter of Intent with the City of Eschborn and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmBH (GIZ) to provide its data center waste-heat for reuse. The company...

Google has announced the development of a new Request for Proposal (RFP) system in collaboration with LevelTen Energy which it said will reduce the time required to sign a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). This development comes from Google to simplify RFPs for PPAs which it said are "lengthy, ...

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, which historically, has been criticized for not “keeping up with its peers,” has announced its pledge to achieve carbon-neutral operations by 2030. The company has outlined that while it will seek to reduce its operational carbon footprint by 90%, it will rely o...

Meta has announced that it has signed a new PPA for solar energy. The PPA, with Avangrid, will see the giant source 240MW of energy from the True North solar farm which is currently under development in Falls County, Texas, the former's first in the state. The solar farm is set to launch in e...

Nokia has outlined its involvement in a project to prevent ocean plastic pollution as part of The Ocean Cleanup project, which is a non-profit organisation that seeks to extract ocean plastic pollution through technological development. To help clear ocean plastic, the company has partnered wi...