Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

Learn how to green your datacentre with advice on increasing datacentre energy efficiency, building a case for a sustainable datacentre, and complying with UK and EU energy-efficiency regulations.

September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21
TikTok’s take-off fuels hyperscale datacentre spend by parent company ByteDance

Following its meteoric rise to social media prominence, TikTok’s parent company is confirmed as being the world’s seventh-biggest datacentre spender after just three years of expansion
September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21
Uptime Institute highlights patchy reporting of water use by datacentre operators

With the water usage habits of datacentres coming under increased scrutiny, research from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute highlights shortcomings in the sector's reporting of how much water facilities use
September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21
Google joins Microsoft and Facebook by pledging to replenish more water than it consumes by 2030

Google is the latest tech giant to go public with its commitment to becoming a water-positive entity
September 06, 2021 06 Sep'21
Verne Global acquired for £231m as Nordic datacentre investment trend gathers pace

Icelandic colocation firm acquired by digital infrastructure investment fund as demand for datacentre capacity in the Nordics continues to grow

Climate change and datacentres: Weighing up water use

Given that a mid-sized datacentre uses as much water as three average-sized hospitals, green IT needs to start considering water usage Continue Reading
The second coming: The Nordic datacentre market comes of age

As concerns mount about space and power constraints within several of Europe’s largest datacentre hubs, enterprises are being urged to consider shifting more of their energy-intensive workloads to the Nordic countries Continue Reading
Uninterruptible power in the datacentre: Choosing between sustainability and uptime

With datacentres under heavier pressure to decarbonise, could even the lowly UPS play a larger role? Continue Reading

A prophetic look back at Green IT

Back in the summer of 2008, we surveyed almost 1500 IT professionals regarding IT and the environment. While many of the research findings still very much apply today, little did we know that some ... Continue Reading
Under the microscope: Different datacentre sustainability strategies

In this guest post, Kyle Myers, director of environmental health, safety and sustainability at colocation giant CyrusOne on why the colocation community needs to look beyond carbon reduction ... Continue Reading
Davos 2020: Tech sector and the climate change challenge

Last week Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella, made the headlines, with an audacious plan to eradicate the company’s historic carbon footprint, by reversing all its emissions since 1975. As political ... Continue Reading

The path towards sustainable sustainability

More enterprises need to build sustainability ecosystems, incorporate sustainability into their business strategy and develop sustainability policies Continue Reading
Putting edge computing centre stage in the UK’s fourth industrial revolution

The fourth industrial revolution will see every sector become a data-driven digital sector, with computing at the edge – which has power implications Continue Reading
The desire for perfect recycling is making the e-waste problem worse

Shipping our electronic waste to poorer countries isn't going to solve the problem of recycling – there's a more economic solution Continue Reading