Environment

Tenfold electric vehicles on 2030 roads could be a shock to the system

Robust policies for renewables needed to increase energy mix to nearly 50%

Offbeat27 Oct 2023 | 341

Microsoft takes concrete steps (literally) toward greener datacenter construction

Plan is to mix a dose of sustainability into bit barn foundations

On-Prem03 Oct 2023 | 11

Telecom giants dial up the heat on suppliers: It's not you, it's your CO2

Tackling sneaky Scope 3 emissions with 'best practices' and a 'climate lens'

Networks04 Aug 2023 | 6

Microsoft’s Dublin DC power plant gets the, er, green light

Updated How does more natural gas consumption contribute to Redmond's eco dream?

On-Prem22 Jul 2023 | 51

SpaceX says, sure, Starship blew up but you can forget about the rest of that lawsuit

Won't someone think of the (checks notes) Kemp's Ridley sea turtle?

Science06 Jul 2023 | 54

California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull

Fraudulent cash cow milked investors for almost $9M

Offbeat28 Jun 2023 | 36

UK told it must double low carbon investment to meet net zero targets

Complexity also a problem across 115 funding streams, watchdog says

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week23 May 2023 | 41

Electric two-wheelers are set to scoot past EVs in road race

Video Micromobility vehicles don't carry any baggage – and that's a good thing

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week18 May 2023 | 80

To quench AI's thirst, the way we build, operate datacenters needs to change

AI infrastructure isn't just hot and power hungry, it's uses a prodigous amount of water researchers tell El Reg

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week15 May 2023 | 7

Money starts to flow as liquid cooling gets hot in datacenters

Global investment company KKR picks up CoolIT Systems for $270M

On-Prem10 May 2023 |

Eco warriors sue FAA over Starship fallout, claim watchdog is lost in space

NEPA was violated by letting SpaceX do its own impact study, suit alleges

Science02 May 2023 | 29

TSMC brags of 20TWh solar scheme. Feels a bit like greenwashing to us

A welcome development, but let's not overdo it

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week22 Apr 2023 | 11

European datacenters worried they can't get cheap, reliable juice

UK operators are sweating about price, Nordics chill thanks to low ambient temperatures

Off-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 58

Digital Realty lines up hefty solar, wind projects for APAC datacenters

Not enough to meet the whole energy suck of sites, but 200 tonnes of CO₂ nothing to sniff at

Energy Efficient Datacenters16 Apr 2023 | 2

America ain't exactly outlawing gas cars but it's steering hard into EVs

Maybe soon all our friends are electric

Personal Tech12 Apr 2023 | 96

Why Microsoft is really abandoning evaporative coolers at its Phoenix DCs

Less about love of the planet, more frustrated city officials

Energy Efficient Datacenters11 Apr 2023 | 30

When will regulators get serious on datacenter emissions reporting?

Updated An end to greenwashing won't come without a fight

Energy Efficient Datacenters11 Apr 2023 | 6

US and EU looking to create 'critical minerals club' to ensure their own supplies

Euro players unhappy about American green tech subsidies... and everybody's worried about China

Systems08 Feb 2023 | 23

Could 2023 be the year SpaceX's Starship finally reaches orbit?

Meanwhile, no one is thinking of the horrible emissions coming out of all these rockets, say scientists

Science06 Feb 2023 | 65

Plugging end-of-life EV batteries into the grid could ease renewables transition

Study says this would give old power units years of useful life once unsuitable for cars

Science18 Jan 2023 | 33

Half of environmental claims about products are full of crap, says EU

Draft paper calls out businesses for vagueness

Personal Tech13 Jan 2023 | 40

CES Worst in Show slams gummi gouging, money-wasting mugs, and other dubious kit

Technology has the potential to make life better. This isn't it.

Personal Tech06 Jan 2023 | 116

Brit MPs pour cold water on hydrogen as mass replacement for fossil fuels

But gas likely to find a 'big niche' in rail, aviation, shipping, and industry

Science20 Dec 2022 | 151

Equinix to cut costs by cranking up the heat in its datacenters

Dude, not cool

Systems07 Dec 2022 | 30

AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030

That basically means more H₂O returned to the environment than is supplied

PaaS + IaaS28 Nov 2022 | 25

Google and Microsoft add more renewable energy for datacenters

Both announce green power purchase agreements for UK and Irish DCs as European worries over power continue

PaaS + IaaS24 Nov 2022 | 11

Massive energy storage system goes online in UK

196MWh installation has capacity to power 300,000 homes for two hours

Systems24 Nov 2022 | 169

New York cracks down on carbon fuel-based crypto-mining operations

Two-year ban comes as state attempts to reduce emissions by 85%

Networks23 Nov 2022 | 33

Nvidia H100-based Henri supercomputer tests AMD’s claim on Green500

SC22 In this race it's all about flops per watts

HPC17 Nov 2022 | 1

Bill Gates' green investments to shift from tackling climate change to mitigating impacts

Refocuses on adaption technologies while oil industry continues to receive billions in government subsidies

Science26 Oct 2022 | 25

Junk cellphones on Earth would stack higher than the International Space Station

Happy International E-waste Day!

Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 28

Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

Researchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact

Science30 Sep 2022 | 39

Teardown shows Apple iPhone 14 Pro is not pro-repair

Who cares if they are authentic parts! Come to the iStore instead if you know what's good for you

Personal Tech27 Sep 2022 | 23

Amazon adds 2.7 gigawatts of renewable energy to its operations

But the question remains whether it is polluting more or less

Off-Prem21 Sep 2022 | 1

Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe

Battery, cable, and diesel combo as there are plenty of non-electrified lines

Offbeat21 Sep 2022 | 46

Datacenter outages are costing more, $1m+ failures now common

And operators not getting any better at saving power – or watching the water their bit barns drink

On-Prem21 Sep 2022 | 5

Food security group, Linux Foundation working on crop data standard

'Sharing of agricultural data can help develop solutions to some of the food system's most pressing challenges'

Software15 Sep 2022 | 9

Climate change prevention plans 'way off track', says UN

To stay under threshold of 1.5°C of warming, the world needs to work seven times harder, says the UN's WMO

Science14 Sep 2022 | 81

South Korea takes massive step toward sustainable nuclear fusion reactions

Plasma at over 100 million kelvin for 20 seconds adds to list of noteworthy fusion breakthroughs in 2022

Science08 Sep 2022 | 18

Scientists pull hydrogen from thin air in promising clean energy move

Could replace fossil fuels in several energy-hungry industries in hot climates without water use

Science07 Sep 2022 | 122

Green alert: SaaS giants may use sustainability to justify price hikes

Which should make you see red because using renewable energy is supposed to cut their costs

SaaS01 Sep 2022 | 4

UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits

Utility says there's no reason facilities should be using drinking water, but also wastes a lot itself

Systems24 Aug 2022 | 159

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

Opinion Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on

Science15 Aug 2022 | 515

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Now 100,000kg smaller

The Ocean Cleanup pulled all that trash in less than a year, and its newest system could collect 10x more

Science26 Jul 2022 | 79

Trees may help power your next electric car

No, we're not reverting to steam power – lignin just makes great cathodes

Science22 Jul 2022 | 24

It takes an exascale supercomputer to drive carbon capture

Here on Earth, we bury our problems and simulate our way out of them later

HPC22 Jul 2022 | 8

UK chemicals multinational to build hydrogen 'gigafactory'

Johnson Matthey receives government backing to scale-up fuel cell production

Science20 Jul 2022 | 100

What are server makers really doing to and for the climate?

They paint themselves as eco-saints, but the numbers tell another story

On-Prem18 Jul 2022 | 19

Copper shortage keeps green energy, tech ventures grounded

Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P

Science15 Jul 2022 | 62

Intel takes deep dive into immersion cooling with GRC

Chipmaker looks cool next to immersion pros, talks up increased densities

On-Prem15 Jul 2022 | 4

Intel's net positive water use only tells part of the story

Chipmaker's 'water into wine' magic is just as well given low levels of water near some fab sites

On-Prem13 Jul 2022 | 37

Juniper drills into India’s oil industry, finds racks to fill

Nation's second-largest petroleum producer to deploy switches, firewalls

Networks12 Jul 2022 |

Fujitsu: Ammonia could power datacenters in the near future

Japanese giant working with Icelandic startup Atmonia to develop sustainable process for production

On-Prem12 Jul 2022 | 25

Microsoft's Dublin datacenter to help take pressure off Ireland's renewable energy

Grid-interactive UPS tech to feed some power back to the grid from backup energy storage systems... for a price

On-Prem08 Jul 2022 | 15

Alibaba joins rivals in offering tool for those under pressure to reduce carbon emissions

Microsoft, Amazon and Google all have products showing the damage you do and now so does Softbank offshoot

PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2022 | 4

Iceotope: No need to switch servers to swap air-cooled for liquid-cooled

Standard datacenter kit just needs a few tweaks, like pulling off the fans

Systems30 Jun 2022 | 17