Intel's green dream is chips without any dips in Mother Nature's health Sustainability Summit pushes industry partners to reduce their environmental impact, including harmful chemicals Systems28 Mar 2024 | 1
Tesla Berlin gigafactory to take week-long nap after suspected arson Losses could surpass €1B as 1,000 vehicles a day go unfinished Offbeat07 Mar 2024 | 9
Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 28
Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 30
Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone? Price tag, hardware durability underpinning 'already lengthened replacement cycle' Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 41
Quest Diagnostics pays $5M after mixing patient medical data with hazardous waste Will cough up less than two days of annual profit in settlement – and California calls this a win CSO16 Feb 2024 | 12
Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters Industry vets specialize in the development of small modular reactors On-Prem23 Jan 2024 | 41
Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project Science17 Jan 2024 | 89
Cutting-edge microscopy reveals bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared Gulp! Science10 Jan 2024 | 46
New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law Meanwhile, finding a public charge point that works and doesn't require a second mortgage remains a challenge Offbeat04 Jan 2024 | 376
UK government lays out plan to divert people's broken gizmos from landfill Right to repair meets right to recycle Public Sector02 Jan 2024 | 122
Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap In-depth As we argue over freeing ourselves from fossil fuels, can SRM buy us time to develop green energy we need? Science30 Dec 2023 | 243
Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions It's tricky to pull off, but new rules may make reuse more common On-Prem08 Dec 2023 | 12
Bitcoin's thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite A single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 42
Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes Will timber tech take root or just go up in flames? On-Prem28 Nov 2023 | 15
Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble Net-zero promises or zero-net progress? Offbeat23 Nov 2023 | 172
Japan Airlines fuels up on hydrogen hype with eye on cleaner skies Jet-setting to a greener future? Science16 Nov 2023 | 44
Intel chips away at carbon footprint but skims over thirst for water, chemicals Semiconductors are a dirty business Systems15 Nov 2023 | 3
UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters A load of hot air? On-Prem06 Nov 2023 | 189
NASA and Boeing try to chase the contrail clouds away The sky isn't the limit when it comes to greener fuel alternatives Science31 Oct 2023 | 24
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 | 345
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 | 175
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