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.
Datacentres of tomorrow: What the future holds
New technologies are widely-tipping to become a mainstay of datacentres in the future. Learn about new and emerging technologies that look set to shake-up the way datacentres are managed, monitored, powered and cooled as well.
News : Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
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May 11, 2020
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May'20
AWS vs Microsoft: US JEDI contract dispute develops into war of words between tech giants
Amazon and Microsoft are embroiled in a ‘battle of the blogs’ over the former’s continued efforts to get its claims that it lost out on a major US cloud contract due to ‘significant political interference’ fully investigated
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May 06, 2020
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May'20
Sustainability credentials of underground datacentre in Norway lure green investment fund
Norway’s Lefdal Mining Datacenter has designs on becoming Europe's largest server farm, and its green credentials have secured further investment to help it reach its goal
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May 04, 2020
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May'20
Digital Realty doubles down on sustainability with pledge to cut carbon emissions by 2030
Colocation giant Digital Realty is embarking on a 10-year, business-wide carbon emissions reduction quest, led by climate science
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April 24, 2020
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Apr'20
Dark data is contributing to carbon emissions
Almost six million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere this year as a result of dark data, Veritas research finds
In Depth : Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
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Coronavirus: Hardening up datacentre equipment supply chains post-Covid-19
Fears about hardware shortages, staff absenteeism and how to keep sites up and running with social distancing have dogged the datacentre sector since the start of the pandemic, so how is the sector faring? Continue Reading
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Datacentre liquid cooling: What needs to happen for it to become commonplace in colocation?
As demand for increasingly dense racks and compute-heavy workloads increases within datacentres, could this lead to a wholesale shift in preference from air-to-liquid-based cooling systems? If so, at what cost to the environment? Continue Reading
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Edge computing environments: what you need to know
An edge case in business sits at the limits of what's viable, and edge computing requirements suggest a similar struggle Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
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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
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MWC 2019: Our planet is dying - is it time to ditch Mobile World Congress?
This year, my flight from London's Stansted Airport to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, plus two days of hour-and-a-half commutes through horrendous traffic between my hotel and the conference ... Continue Reading
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Powering the fourth industrial revolution
This is a guest blog post by Luke Whitehead, head of European marketing, Couchbase We’ve all heard about the digital economy: a modern economy supported by digital computing technologies. Talk of ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
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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
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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
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Can the 2017 Budget dispel the tech sector’s gloom over Brexit?
The chancellor needs to send a strong signal that government is committed to making the UK the best place to be a tech business post-Brexit Continue Reading