Data Center News

Flexential's sustainability-linked financing: $2.1 billion raised via inaugural securitization financing

Flexential

Flexential has announced the completion of a $2.1 billion securitization financing offer, which, according to the company, is the largest single asset-backed securities (ABS) issuance. On top of that, it is also the largest-ever green data center ABS financing. With this money, it will work to...

AWS announces 18 new renewable energy projects

Amazon AWS

This week, AWS has announced 18 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects spread across the US, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. This totals 2GW of clean energy capacity. This investment also makes Amazon the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.Commenting on this sign...

Oni's new renewable energy deal with Acciona Energia

Oni, which Gigas acquired in 2020, has announced that it has signed a 5-year-renewable contract agreement with Acciona Energia. This agreement will see Oni provided with 100% renewable energy for its facilities in Lisbon and Porto, as well as its internal operations.Speaking about what this me...

Amazon to launch its first Georgia solar project in Burke County

Amazon AWS

Amazon is launching a 70-megawatt solar farm in Burke County - the first of its kind in Georgia. This move is part of a wider initiative, which will see the giant bring 18 new wind and solar projects online for an entirely renewable-powered company by 2025.The other projects include one in Oh...

Interxion and river cooling

InterXion

In a move that bolsters sustainability and the circular economy, Interxion has announced that it has switched on its €15 million ($17m) river water cooling system in Marseille, France. The cooling system utilizes underground water from a former mine which is transported through 3km of buried p...

LCL Data Centers pledges to cut carbon emissions

LCL Belgium n.v.

LCL Data Centers has announced that it has joined the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). It is now the first Belgium company to do so and signing up means that as a company, it will reduce its carbon emissions and work towards keeping the average increase in global temperatures below 1.5...

Infosys collaborates with Lefdal Mine Datacenter to push forward Daimler's sustainability goals

Lefdal Mine Datacenter

Infosys has announced that it is transferring Daimler's High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads to Lefdal Mine Datacenter in Norway. This move, according to the company, will help its sustainability goal to become carbon-neutral by 2039 and has been made possible through Infosys' Data Cente...

CoreSite’s VA3 Data Center goes green, powered by 100% renewables

CoreSite

CoreSite has announced that its VA3 data on its Northern Virginia campus is powered by 100% renewable energy. This move to green has been achieved through Dominion Energy’s 100% Renewable Energy Program, which has a portfolio of locally-sourced solar, hydroelectric, and biomass energy. Com...

Google joins Ørsted's offshore wind project

Google

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PAA) with Ørsted, a Danish offshore wind developer. According to reports, Google will have access to 50 MW of Ørsted’s planned 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 Offshore Wind Farm.This PPA is in line with Google’s goal to powe...

Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is partnering with Coolest DC to develop high-efficiency thermal management solutions for the industry following a pilot program supported by Temasek Foundation. The initial pilot scheme sought to improve energy consumption by data centers and enhance efficiency and had deploye...

PLDT partners with Mpower to source renewable energy for its data centers

ePLDT

PLDT has announced that it has partnered with Mpower, a local energy firm, to become more sustainable and decarbonize its portfolio. Mpower will provide the renewable energy from its greenfield renewable energy plants. According to reports, Mpower will provide a “significant portion” of the co...

Sustainability efforts: New data center at LNG terminal from Korea Gas and KT

KT Corporation

Korean telecoms company KT is looking into using the cold energy released during the regasification process from KOGAS’s natural gas to cool a facility at the LNG plant. This process deals with temperatures of -160oc, and if all goes ahead, this project will be the first of its kind. In Seoul,...

Utilizing waste heat: Nokia vLabs data center

Nokia's vLab data center in Tampere, Finland, will start to provide its waste heat to Tempere's district heating system in a move that promotes a secular economy. This heat project will commence at the beginning of 2022 and is a move towards a more sustainable future, in line with the company'...

Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance ta...

Schneider Electric's blueprint for data center sustainability compliance

In response to the growing and urgent need for data centers to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Schneider Electric has revealed its framework for how data center operators can achieve this. Tony Kang, Business VP for Secure Power at Schneider Electric Philippines, commente...

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) moves into Africa

Africa

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) has announced that it is moving into Africa, after having signed Letters of Intent (LOI) for several projects, in the first steps towards collaboration with government ministries. This news follows African Energy Week. According to reports, EW&P is looking...

Interxion: Foresting project underway in Palencia, Spain

InterXion

Interxion has announced that it is sponsoring an afforestation project in Palencia, Spain, as part of its sustainability efforts. This project with Reforestum will see the planting of trees in non-wooded areas spanning 24 hectares.Unlike reforestation which replenishes forest growth in areas ...

Microsoft tests its hydrogen fuel cell backup generator

Microsoft Azure

In Quincy, Washington, tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is teaming up with Caterpillar and Ballard Power Systems to test its hydrogen fuel cell backup generators in a move towards a more sustainable future. This project accompanies Microsoft’s other backup energy efforts, like the tr...

Climate protestors gather outside Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin

Republic of Ireland

People Before Profit, is calling for an end to new data centers being buillt in Ireland, and picketed outside ​​Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin on 16 November in protest of the dangerous and continual expansion of data center building in Ireland.The protest held outside the annual data ce...

Ant Group reduces data center emissions by 394 tons

Ant Group has announced that, through using green computing technologies, during this year's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, lasting 11 days, it reduced its data center electricity usage by 640 megawatt-hours and its carbon emissions by 394 tonnes. This news follows the company's pledge to bec...