climate emergency
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX will offer free Starlink terminals to areas of Los Angeles affected by raging wildfires. -
Eighty data centre companies and 22 associations have launched an agreed way to assess operators’ move to climate neutrality by 2030.
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Data centres use 2.4% of global energy consumption. Operators are hunting for ways to use less energy or to use it more effectively, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Data centre design and infrastructure company Vertiv has issued a warning about the challenges the industry is facing from the climate emergency.
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The French telecoms regulator wants to add information about data centres and consumer devices to its sustainability audit for the digital sector.
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Equinix in Finland is planning to get 42MW of its power from the wind, following an agreement with suppliers Neoen and Prokon.
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An organisation of more than 100 data centre operators and associations is calling on the European Commission to focus on how much water the industry uses – and is asking for new standards.
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Telecoms networks and data centre operators should have a global, industry-wide standard for energy efficiency, said a senior Huawei executive yesterday.
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Deutsche Telekom has renewed its campaign to become a company that acts responsibility in terms of energy use and other goals.
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Only four telcos from around the world have signed Amazon’s Climate Pledge, which the data centre, streaming and delivery company started in 2019.
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Spectrum policy can help to tackle climate change, a UK industry body claimed today.
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Norwegian company Telenor is calling for more digitalisation as a way through the climate emergency.
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The mobile industry’s organisation that is leading the way to specifying the next technology generation is to introduce green targets to address the climate emergency.
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Since the New South Wales (NSW) government officially declared a state of emergency in December, Australia has been in the grips of one of the worse bushfires in recent memory.
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With the world under pressure to tackle climate change, what are the telecoms and data centre industries doing to help? Guy Matthews examines who is doing what to cut emissions and save power.
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Digital Bridge, the telecoms investment company led by Marc Ganzi, has appointed a former renewable energy and climate change advisor as principal on its team.
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Five telecoms companies – BT, Singtel, Telefónica, Telia and Vodafone – are among 28 companies that have committed to new international climate targets.
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Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
