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 | 64
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 | 28
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
Castrol, Submer shift gears to datacenter immersion cooling Just us who see 'liquid engineering' and think three pints at lunch on a Thursday? OK, got it, just us On-Prem22 Jun 2022 | 10
Eaton, Microsoft to outfit datacenters with 'grid-interactive' UPS tech 'EnergyAware' systems to help electricity grids' transition to renewables On-Prem16 Jun 2022 | 7
If you want to launch Starship from Texas, here's some homework, FAA tells SpaceX Be a good neighbor to folks and the environment, and we'll think that permit over Science14 Jun 2022 | 22
EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035 Analysis China one potential source of battery power to service massive expected demand – though market access is limited Off-Prem10 Jun 2022 | 281
AI and ML could save the planet – or add more fuel to the climate fire 'Staggering amount of computation' deployed to solve big problems uses a lot of electricity AI + ML08 Jun 2022 | 31
Why chasing the AI dragon may force big tech to take sustainability seriously Comment Carbon offsets don't make you green when your datacenters are still rolling coal Science06 Jun 2022 | 14
Compute responsibly: Yet another IT industry sustainability drive From greener datacenters to data transparency and 'conscious code', IBM, Dell, others push for better IT ops On-Prem06 Jun 2022 | 1
Small nuclear reactors produce '35x more waste' than big plants Updated At least one manufacturer would like to disagree with study's conclusions Science02 Jun 2022 | 205
Supermicro CEO would like it if you could all build new, greener datacenters Using guess-who's datacenter equipment, natch Systems30 May 2022 | 3
AMD hasn't forgotten about that ambitious 2025 energy efficiency goal it promised Beware, a lot can happen in three years – speaking from experience HPC04 May 2022 | 1
Don't hate on cryptomining, hate the power stations, say Bitcoin super-fans We're not the ones telling them to burn fossil fuels, top names write in response to probe request Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 111
AI helps scientists design novel plastic-eating enzyme In brief Plus: Pentagon hires first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, and more AI + ML02 May 2022 | 20
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba makes 9 datacenter energy patents available Part of a Low Carbon Patent Pledge with Meta, Microsoft, and others Systems22 Apr 2022 | 7
Plans for Dutch datacenter to warm thousands of homes Bytesnet working with Boston to recycle residual heat in Groningen district Systems22 Apr 2022 | 29
What will help enterprises meet sustainability goals? Algorithms, says Oracle If you want to retain customers, Big Red recommends putting AI in charge AI + ML20 Apr 2022 | 3
Fujitsu to provide HPC, AI for startup to produce clean ammonia Ammonia as a viable, sustainable alternative to fossil fuels – and current fertilizer HPC14 Apr 2022 | 8
Intel commits to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 Greenwashing or serious commitment? Systems13 Apr 2022 | 11
Wiki community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations Cryptocurrencies make up less than 1% of wiki donations, but as member points out, that $130k could pay a salary Networks13 Apr 2022 | 19
South Yorkshire to test fiber broadband through water pipes No actual users harmed yet as dept tests safety of pushing water, telecoms services in single pipeline Networks07 Apr 2022 | 90
Tomorrow Water thinks we should colocate datacenters and sewage plants If it can cut energy requirements for both, this idea might not stink after all On-Prem02 Apr 2022 | 92
'Significant business growth' fueled Microsoft's emissions rise Sustainability report blames carbon generated from data center builds, Xbox sales and usage Off-Prem11 Mar 2022 | 8
This data center will be Europe’s first with hydrogen backup power And could this be a new Reg standard unit: Number of kilometers a Dutch person drives per day? On-Prem15 Feb 2022 | 57
Oregon city courting Google data centers fights to keep their water usage secret Chocolate Factory thirst hidden behind non-disclosure agreement claims On-Prem05 Nov 2021 | 50