Data Center News

Bouygues Telecom Signs 15-year PPA with Suez

France

French telco Bouygues Telecom has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy-from-waste (EfW) firm Suez in France which will see Suez supply 53GWh of power per year from its EfW portfolio. Over the term of the agreement, the telco aims to source up to 800GWh of power through f...

AWS Breaks Ground on Water Replenishment Project in Sweden

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has broken ground on a water replenishment project in Katrineholm, Sweden as a part of a collaboration between AWS, the municipality of Katrineholm, and the regional water utility company, Sörmlands Vatten.AWS invested $4 million into the project, which aims to facili...

Aslan Energy to Develop 40MW Renewable Powered Facility

Aslan Energy Capital, a Singaporean renewable developer, has partnered with the Jakarta Industrial Estate Pulogadung (JIEP), Indonesia’s first industrial estate, to develop a 40MW data center in Jakarta, Indonesia.The facility will be primarily powered by renewable energy and will integrate a ...

BW Group Launches 'Sustainable' Data Center Development Firm

Canada

BW Group subsidiaries, BW Digital and BW ESS, have launched a new company focused on the development of ‘sustainable’ data centers in the Nordics and Canada. BW Velora will leverage the digital infrastructure expertise of BW Digital with BW ESS’ extensive experience developing energy infrastru...

Meta, XGS Signs 150MW Geothermal Deal in New Mexico

New Mexico

Social network firm Meta has signed an agreement with enhanced geothermal energy firm XGS Energy to support the development and deployment of a 150MW project in New Mexico.This project is expected to supply energy to the PNM electrical grid and power Meta’s data center portfolio across New Mex...

DayOne Signs 500MW Solar Deal with TNB

Malaysia

APACT data center firm DayOne has secured up to 500MW of solar power over 21 years from utility company Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) to power its operations in Malaysia. Power will be provided by TNB’s renewable power subsidiary and power DayOne’s Nusajaya Tech Park, in Gelang Patah, and Kempa...

Amazon to expand Data Centers using Recycled Water to 120

Amazon AWS

Amazon this week announced it will expand its use of water recycling to more than 120 locations in states and counties where the cloud giant has data center operations by 2030.“By scaling our use of recycled water—water that has been previously used and treated—we expect to preserve over 530 m...

UK District Heating Networks Look to Data Centers for Waste Heat

United Kingdom

The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has published a list of district heating networks in development across the UK that have applied for funding and support from three of its programs.A project pipeline document published by DESNZ states: “The opportunities present a w...

Google Signs Water Sustainability Agreement in North and South Carolina

Google

Google has expanded a partnership with Arable to support water sustainability efforts across North and South Carolina which will see the deployment of Arable's in-field irrigation technology to hundreds of fields across the two states.As part of the agreement, Google will provide funding for t...

Frontier Infrastructure Buys Natural Gas Turbines for US Data Centers

United States

Frontier Infrastructure has acquired 16 natural gas turbines from manufacturer Baker Hughes to power planned data center projects across Wyoming and Texas. Baker Hughes will supply 16 of its NovaLT gas turbines, which will have a combined capacity of 270MW of power. "We're seeing a rapid shift...

Microsoft to Purchase 60k of Carbon Credits from Indigo

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 60,000 tons of carbon credits from Indigo, generated through its CAR1459 project, which is being implemented across farms in the US. The project generates the credits through partnerships with more than 40 agribusinesses that support the adoption of soil-improv...

Microsoft Partners with Norden to Cut Scope 3 Maritime Emissions by 10k tons

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has partnered with Danish shipping company Norden to cut its Scope 3 CO2 emissions by approximately 10,000 tons over three years. Both companies will collaborate on a pilot project, utilizing Norden’s biofuel book and claim solution which allows companies that rely on maritime transp...

Penta Infra Data Center to Supply Waste Heat to Heating Network

Penta Infra

European operator Penta Infra this week signed a letter of intent to supply residual heat from its Leeuwarden data center to a new sustainable heat network being developed at the De Zwette IV business park.“This project is a great example of how local collaboration can turn sustainability ambi...

Microsoft to Purchase Carbon Removal Credits from Exomad Green

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase 1.24 million tons of carbon removal credits from Exomad Green, in the largest biochar removal agreement to date. The ten-year deal will see the tech giant purchase removal credits generated from Exomad's biochar operations in Concepción and Riberalta, B...

Digital Realty to Purchase 5.1MW of Solar Energy from Summit Ridge Energy

Digital Realty Trust

Colo data center developer Digital Realty has signed an agreement to purchase 5.1MW of solar power from Summit Ridge Energy. The solar projects are part of Summit Ridge’s broader portfolio of solar assets across the state of Illinois. According to the company, its Illinois portfolio has a comb...

Google Signs 600MW Solar Energy Deal in South Carolina

Google

Google has signed an energy deal to procure renewable energy credits (RECs) in South Carolina that allows Google to invest in and purchase RECs from a portfolio of more than 600 MW of new solar and solar with storage projects being developed by EnergyRe in South Carolina."Strengthening the gri...

Iliad Group Signs four PPAs Across Europe for 60MW of Power

French multinational telco company, Iliad Group, has signed four Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) across France, Poland, and Italy for 60MW of power. In France, the company signed two PPAs, including its first wind PPA, with renewable developer H2air. “With these four new projects, we’re passi...

Telekom Malaysia Inks Solar PPA with Gentari

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has signed a series of Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with solar developer Gentari Renewables to power six of its sites in Malaysia. Under the terms of the PPA, Gentari will design, install, and operate 4.3MW of solar projects at the TM facilities, which will generate 4....

Thunderhead and HMC to deliver up to 1.5GW of offgrid natural gas power for US data centers

Thunderhead Energy Solutions, a US-based behind-the-meter natural gas power developer, has secured funding from Harbert Management Corporation (HMC) to develop up to 1.5GW of power generation capacity for the data center market.The collaboration will focus specifically on onsite natural gas-po...

Start Campus and Schneider Electric to Deliver 26MW data center in Sines, Portugal

Schneider Electric has helped deliver the first stage of the Start Campus data center development in Portugal. Located on repurposed industrial land in Sines, Portugal, Start Campus could eventually become Europe’s biggest data center campus, with 1.2GW of power secured by the developer.“Start...