renewable energy
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Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has called on mobile network operators to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy. -
French renewable energy company Engie has signed power purchase agreements with data centre operator Digital Realty and French telco Iliad.
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An organisation called Green America has started a campaign against telecoms operators in the US, and is calling on them to move to renewable energy by 2025.
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Stack Infrastructure (Stack) has broken ground on its seventh campus in Northern Virginia, bringing its total regional footprint to nearly 1GW.
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Google’s cloud regions and offices in the UK and Spain are on track to operate at or near 90% carbon-free energy in 2025, according to a senior company executive.
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Swisscom is joining a Swiss national alliance to work together to avert what it expects to be an impending energy crisis this coming winter.
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Neos Networks has confirmed that it is to provide the communications links from the Viking Energy Wind Farm, likely to be one of the biggest onshore wind farms in the world, and headquarters of the company building it, SSE Renewables.
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Vodafone is to hold a worldwide Dragon’s Den-style competition to find ways to generate renewable power directly at mobile phone base stations.
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GlobalConnect has been contracted to connect the North Sea Energy Island, as Denmark looks to create a "cross-border digital hub" that will meet the connectivity needs of large operators, hyperscalers and, by extension, consumers.
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Telecoms operators can make improvements of up to 90% in energy use, according to an Earth Day report from ABI Research.
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T-Mobile has achieved its plan to source 100% of its total electricity usage with renewable sources.
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The industry organisation setting priorities for 6G has set out its programme for a global standard for green networks.
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The utilities regulator in Ireland has issued new rules on data centre grid connections, stating that if it takes no action there could be "rolling blackouts".
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Openreach has signed up to the COP26 Transport Declaration, committing to transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans by 2030.
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The mobile industry needs to set itself aggressive targets in energy efficiency in order to cut consumption as demand grows.
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Data centres connected to a dedicated source of hydrogen-based, CO2-free emergency power are on track become a reality by mid-decade.
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Communication service providers believe that AI software is key to reducing network energy demand and emissions, according to research from Nokia and GSMA Intelligence.
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Amazon has started up its first Scottish windfarm, just 60km from Glasgow, where the global COP26 climate conference starts this weekend.
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The investor that owns HGC Global Communications and the former infrastructure division of GTT Communications is to spend up to US$500 million in renewable energy in Europe.
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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its business activities to "effectively zero by 2030".
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The data centre industry has stopped making progress in its power usage over the past seven years.
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As the world catches fire, are data centres helping us improve the climate emergency or making it worse? It’s hard to be precise, Alan Burkitt-Gray finds
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Cyber security is the main building block needed in digital infrastructure over the next few years, says a new survey by one of Capacity’s sister titles.
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The availability of power is the most important factor in the decision-making process for a new data centre, according to new research.
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Telecoms operators and equipment vendors need to consider energy and sustainability, says the organisation leading the move to 6G.
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Telefónica has put its weight behind international development goals, saying it wants to deploy sustainable, resilient and quality infrastructures.
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Vodafone says it has achieved a promise made in July 2020 that its European networks will be 100% powered from renewable sources by next week.
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TIM subsidiary Telenergia has signed a 10-year agreement for 3.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) of green energy to power operations from 2022 to 2031.
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Green Mountain has secured a 50,000m2 plot on the west coast of Norway that is currently powered by renewable hydropower.
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Powering the storage of dark data around the world is pumping 6.4 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year – more carbon dioxide than 80 different countries.
