Data Center News

KDDI and Telehouse discuss sustainability and targets

Telehouse

KDDI and its data center subsidiary Telehouse recently made their latest sustainability announcements and set a number of target dates to achieve carbon neutrality. Alongside this, they published the details of number of initiatives that will help them to achieve their green goals. Currently, ...

Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma

Meta

Meta has recently signed another power purchase agreement (PPA) with TransAlta Corporation. Through this deal, Meta will be provided with 200MW from the upcoming Horizon Hill Wind Power Project, which is to be based in Oklahoma. Construction on the project, which will be located on 25,000 acr...

Equinix's $1.2 billion in green bonds will enhance its data center sustainability

Equinix

In its latest sustainability effort, Equinix has announced $1.2 billion of "green bonds," the fourth green bond the company has issued. Now the company's total green bonds stand at $4.9 billion. According to the company, the company will use these funds to push forward its sustainability initi...

New data center sewage project ahead for Samsung and partners

United States

Tomorrow Water, a wastewater specialist, has announced that it has teamed with Samsung, Dohwa, and BNZ for a new sustainability initiative. This project will see the partners co-develop an architecture combining data centers with water treatment facilities. According to Tomorrow Water, pl...

Telekom Malaysia: Green electricity tariff secured for three data centers

Malaysia

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has announced that it has secured a Green Electricity Tariff (GET) for three of its data centers: Klang Valley Core Data Centre (KVDC) in Cyberjaya, Iskandar Puteri Core Data Centre (IPDC) in Johor Baru, and KL City Data Centre (CTDC) in Brickfields. The GET from Tenaga N...

Telekom Malaysia: Green electricity tariff secured for three data centers

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has announced that it has secured a Green Electricity Tariff (GET) for three of its data centers: Klang Valley Core Data Centre (KVDC) in Cyberjaya, Iskandar Puteri Core Data Centre (IPDC) in Johor Baru, and KL City Data Centre (CTDC) in Brickfields. The GET from Tenaga N...

Work begins on solar farm that will power Meta's Tennessee campus

Meta

Construction on the ​​solar farm that will supply Meta's Gallatin data centers with renewable energy is underway; it has been announced. Based in Madison County, Tennessee, the farm will see an investment of upwards of $90 million, which will be funded, owned, operated, and maintained by Nashv...

Meta confirms data center Missouri plans

Meta

Meta has confirmed that it will indeed be a tenant at the Golden Plains Technology Park and intends to build a data center at the location in Kansas City, Missouri. The giant said that construction on the facility has begun, and that it expects it to be operational in 2024.According to report...

Loughborough University announces plans for data center

United Kingdom

Loughborough University has announced that it has filed to build a data center in its student village in Leicestershire, UK.  According to the University, the IT facility, part of the Energy and Data Hub, will also be used to supply district heating services to local student housing. The hub, ...

CyrusOne joins the orchard initiative

CyrusOne

As more and more companies in the digital infrastructure sector realize the efforts required to change the trajectory of our planet’s path, more are joining different eco projects to contribute to the transformation. CyrusOne is one of these companies and has announced that it has joined Host ...

Microsoft announces new Finland cloud region that will help to decarbonize local heating systems

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it is building a new data center region in Finland, joining Fortum's project to heat local homes and businesses in the Helsinki metropolitan area, and help decarbonize heating systems. This is reportedly the world's largest data center heat recovery project.For ye...

Upstack announces partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale for sustainable data center

Wyoming

Upstack has formed a strategic partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale White Box (WHWB). The partnership will see the company gain access to the Wyoming Hyperscale White Box facility due to open by the end of 2022. Located in a remote mountainous site southeast of Evanston, according to the Thorno...

A1 Bulgaria signs solar PPA with Renalfa

Bulgaria

Telco A1 Bulgaria has announced that it has teamed up with the Bulgarian clean energy investment group Renalfa AD to sign Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The solar energy from the PPA will provide the company with 20,000 MWh of clean energy per annum across the next ten years.This news comes a...

Lancaster University: carbon net-zero data center project

United Kingdom

Lancaster University has announced the launch of its Blackpool Innovation Catalyst project, which seeks to bring together "dynamic organisations" and academics to develop effective "long-term solutions around clean growth and secure digitalisation for their industries."One of the latest projec...

Empa begins research into data center waste heat

Switzerland

Swiss research body Empa has announced the launch of a new research project on data centers, namely ECO-Qube. The project is in response to the increasing demand for data and the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and the Internet of Things (IoT), which ...

Locals continue to challenge County Meath development

EngineNode

EngineNode's proposed data center in County Meath is the subject of continued controversy, as locals argue that unauthorized development has already started on the site, while the company claims that the work is related to 'archaeological tests.' EngineNode says that the archaeological testin...

AWS says it will share its emissions data

Amazon AWS

In a bid to catch up with competitors Microsoft Azure and Google, AWS has announced the launch of a new free carbon tracker tool for customers. This tool, ​​the 'Customer Carbon Footprint Tool' comes as part of its commitment to The Climate Pledge and will enable its cloud customers to track, ...

The Better Climate Challenge

QTS Data Centers

The IPCC'S most recent report on climate change has once again warned that our ecosystem is at a crisis point, and without significant and real action, the situation will only worsen. Coinciding with the release of the IPCC report, QTS and Sabey announced they have joined the DOE's Better Clim...

Tencent becomes latest data center company to announce carbon-neutral pledge

Tencent Cloud

Tencent has announced its plans to become carbon neutral by 2030. It is the latest to join the global movement pushing towards a more sustainable future. By the end of the decade, it has pledged carbon neutrality across its operations and throughout its supply chain, powering its operations e...

Alibaba Cloud's 2030 vision

China

Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba, has announced that it is on track to have its global data centers running entirely on clean, renewable energy by 2030. As part of its green pledge and push towards more sustainable operations, the company has announced that it is upgrading five of its hy...