Environment

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