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Residents in North Virginia had recently raised their concerns about the decision made by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to permit diesel generators to power data centers in the region. The DEQ announced that it would be looking into the permittance to preserve data center relia...

Microsoft is teaming up with Running Tide to remove 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its operations. This will be done through Running Tide's carbon capture and removal technology, which utilizes photosynthesis and ocean alkalinity enhancement to fix carbon from the fast carbon cycle,...

In Dublin, Ireland, AWS has announced it is turning to HVO for its backup generators at its data centers. It will work with companies like Certa in Ireland to help develop a global supply chain, in order to create a more "accessible, steady, and sustainable supply of HVO." Further, it is inves...

Teraco has announced plans to invest in a solar farm located in the City of Ekurhuleni in eastern Johannesburg, South Africa. This investment is in 100MW utility-scale solar farms, which are currently under development and located with the data center, which is reportedly close to signing a w...

Equinix, in another move in alignment with its sustainability goals, has announced the opening of a rooftop urban farm at its PA10 data center in Paris, France. Promoting circular economy principles, the company will use its servers' waste heat to heat the greenhouse, which was built by Reid ...

Stack Infrastructure has signed up for the Swiss Winter Reserve Plan, through which it will provide its supplemental power capacity to the Swiss energy reserve, in line with the Federal Council's ordinance. The ordinance includes measures to prevent winter power shortages and will run until A...

In Exmouth, Devon, a small Edge data center, named the "digital boiler" has been installed at a local leisure center by UK startup, Deep Green, to heat the swimming pool. While initially, the company planned to target seven swimming pools across the UK with the boilers, this has now been incre...

Yettel Bulgaria and CETIN Bulgaria, part of the PPF Telecom Group, have announced the signing of a 10-year solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Electrohold. Through this deal, the company will offtake energy from an upcoming unnamed 123 MW photovoltaic plant. This will reportedly cover al...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it will be transitioning away from diesel to Hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) to power its backup generators in Sweden. Reports are that HVO has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90 percent through the fuel life cycle when c...

The University at Buffalo School of Management (UB) has announced that recent research has discovered a strategy to conserve data center energy consumption and optimize processing performance. It found that data center managers can reduce energy consumption 10-30%. This can be done, the resear...

At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. Th...

AirTrunk has announced that it has secured a new AU$ 650 million (US$432.5m) Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) in Japan. This latest addition, it has outlined, means that all debt platforms are now linked to sustainability targets; a total of AU$ 5 billion (US$3.3bn) in Environmental, Social, ...

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced the signing of a new 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Distributed Power Africa (DPA) to procure solar energy for its South African operations.Through the deal, the company will be supplied via wheeling, which occurs by delivering renewable en...

In further efforts to decarbonize, Orange has announced that it is deploying solar panels at its Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso data centers. Reports are that the deployments will average at 1MWp.These solar panels will be deployed by SolarX, part of investment firm Omnium Invest, and will repor...

WekaIO (WEKA) has announced that it has launched a new Sustainable AI Initiative with the aim of raising awareness of the rapid growth in global data center energy consumption and carbon emissions driven by next-generation computing technologies. According to the company, while technologies su...

Honda has announced that its old retired Clarity fuel cells will now be used for backup power at one of its data centers as part of a trial project. The company said that this aligns with its carbon neutrality goals, which it aims to reach by 2050, and promotes circular economy principles. The...

New research from the UK's National Oceanography Centre and the University of Central Florida has found that thousands of miles of cables on the seafloor are increasingly at risk due to climate-related disasters. This, experts say, makes the world's internet connectivity vulnerable to outages ...

Impulsa Galicia, a public-private partnership from the Galician local government, has announced that it has partnered with Ingenostrum for a carbon-neutral data center project. The project is set to see an investment of €400m ($424m), and will see Ingenostrum assess the feasibility of a carbon...

West Virginia recently signed a bill for $105 million in state funding for a renewable energy battery plant in the former steel town, Weirton. In total the investment committed by the state is $290 million. This is a move that pushes the state to diversify its energy mix, in an area that has h...

TexAmericas Center has announced its plan to develop green energy data centers, which it has said will be suitable for major companies eyeing expansion. The property pegged for this development has over 400 acres, which reports outline would be suitable for hyperscale, corporate, retail and  s...