sustainability
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Digital infrastructure company Equinix has signed one of the largest power purchase agreements in French history with wpd to provide over 300GWh of green energy annually.
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TXO, a provider of recycled and second life telecom equipment, has announced it will acquire Lynx UK, a specialist network decommissioning and engineering solutions provider.
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The Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA) has released its Code of Conduct on space sustainability.
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Capacity explores the factors behind circular economy adoption, and investigates why more granular data on network components is key to driving adoption of the principles
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Ooredoo Group along with its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) telcos, has taken steps towards advancing sustainability in the region.
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aicep Global Parques, EllaLink and Start Campus are working together to create the Atlantic Hub, enhancing connectivity between Europe, North and South America and Africa.
Forthcoming events
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Peter Michelson will assume the role of CEO at EcoDataCenter on 1st October.
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Capacity's Natalie Bannerman speaks to nLighten's Harro Beusker and Chad McCarthy on the company's sustainability-first mission, its use of AI technology and is approach to talent and skills.
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Northshore will deploy its solutions to measure, track and reduce the environmental impact of AtlasEdge’s data centres.
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Vodafone has signed a new clean energy power purchase agreement (PPA) in Spain and Portugal, adding to a recent agreement in Germany.
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GSMA has spearheaded a new initiative to boost circular economy in the telecom supply chain
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The circular economy offers operators a lifeline as they look to both remove and replace Huawei and ZTE equipment from their networks.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to reduce energy consumption in mobile networks while optimising capacity to meet consumer needs, a project from Tele2 has indicated.
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Nokia will deploy private wireless connectivity, network edge equipment and analytics for The Ocean Cleanup.
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Princeton Digital Group is to power three new data centres in Indonesia from geothermal energy.
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Estonian company Greenergy Data Centers has deployed cloud-ready and AI-driven technology at its 31.5MW data centre.
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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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Telefónica has issued a €1 billion bond that it describes as a “green hybrid” and is linked to the company’s aims for energy efficiency and sustainability.
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Pennsylvania data centre company Cumulus Data has completed what it calls “key milestones” in a 475MW zero-carbon campus – powered by nuclear power.
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The mobile industry is leading the race towards net-zero emissions, but many need to integrate sustainability goals into their core objectives.
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Orange is to use solar power for one fifth of the energy needed by one of its major satellite stations.
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Satellite company Iridium has created what it calls a first-of-its-kind programme in support of a Smithsonian Institution conservation project.
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Helsinki-based data centre operator Hyperco is to develop two new campuses, each with an initial capacity of 50MW.
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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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stc and Nokia confirm the adoption of energy-efficient solutions, enabling stc to reduce its carbon emissions and support its net-zero targets.
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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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Orange has signed an agreement for a sustainability-liked refinancing of its €6 billion syndicated credit facility with 27 banks.
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Earth Wind & Power (EWP), a provider of sustainable excess energy and green computing power, is to offtake excess and pre-grid offshore wind power for datacentre infrastructure in Northern Europe.
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e& and Ericsson have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the same time of the 2022 Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) in Egypt.
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American Tower Corporation’s African subsidiary, American Tower Corporation Africa (ATC Africa) and PowerX are partnering on AI-driven solutions for sustainability.
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T5 Data Centers’ facilities management unit is expanding its business into Denmark, the company has announced.
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IHS Towers has announced plans to extend its Project Green in order to reduce its carbon footprint at a cost of US$214 million in capital expenditure between now and 2024.
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Telehouse International Corporation of Europe has announced a collaboration with software provider EkkoSense, enabling the firm to achieve an anticipated 461 tonne reduction in CO2 carbon emissions at its Telehouse North site by the end of the year.
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Vertiv has released its Guide to Data Centre Sustainability, an online resource for data centre owners and operators seeking to reduce the environmental impact of their facilities.
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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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IBM and the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) have signed a strategic agreement to drive the adoption of artificial intelligence in the carbon capture and industrial domains across Saudi Arabia.
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Sustainability is becoming a primary driver for data centre site selection, design, build and operations according to data centre thought leaders.
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Oslo-based Bulk Data Centers has announced a number of expansion projects across its data centre sites in Norway, with investment focused on 100 % renewable energy.
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Hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk has announced the successful close of a green loan in Japan as part of what it calls its new green financing framework.
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Insurance firm Ping An says it will trial a new data centre that will set a “benchmark” for energy-saving and emission-reduction technology in China’s financial data centres.