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.
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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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P3 Logistic Parks has taken over the former Großauheim barracks in Hanau from the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (Institute for Federal Real Estate) with plans to develop a data centre campus.
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EdgeConneX has secured a series of sustainability-linked financings totalling $1.7 billion.
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Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the largest telecoms firm in Taiwan has cut its energy use by an average of 33% after using Ericsson’s 5G solutions.
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An important principle in the development of IT over the decades has been Moore’s Law. Simply put, it predicted that transistor density in processors would double every two years as development progresses.
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Colt has launched its first Sustainability Report, looking at how the company is delivering a positive environmental impact in accordance with its ESG commitments.
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Green Mountain and Scan are to combine their services to deliver managed hosting solutions for the high-performance computing (HPC) and AI markets.
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Rack Centre has become the first data centre operator in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region to receive the IFC's sustainability recognition for data centres – a standard it co-developed with the global finance organisation.
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Vodafone UK has installed what it calls its first self-powered base station, using wind power.
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While the news may be full of companies pledging to green their operations, new research has concluded that there is a "sustainability action gap" in the data centre and IT industries.
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Data centre operator Vantage is to use 87MW of solar power for its new Johannesburg campus, which is due to open next month.
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Iceland's national powerco has teamed up with Verne Global to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells as a sustainable back-up option for its Icelandic data centre campus.