Start-up uses data centre to heat public swimming pool
March 14, 2023
British start-up Deep Green is using waste heat produced by a small, on-site edge data centre to provide free heat to a public swimming pool.
Tag: Carbon Emissions
Kohler’s Brest manufacturing site switches to HVO fuel
January 25, 2023
Kohler Power Systems has switched the fuel usage in the diesel engines at its plant in Brest, France from fossil diesel to Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO).
The real carbon cost of a data centre?
May 11, 2022
Ed Ansett, Founder and Chairman of i3 Solutions Group, explores how to identify and evaluate the real embodied carbon cost of a data centre.
Combined Heat and Power, and the future of the grid
October 1, 2021
Ed Ansett, i3 Solutions Group, and Gardson Githu, EYP Mission Critical Facilities, explain how a sustainable data centre design using CHP could set us on the right path for net zero carbon operations.
Vantage helps contribute to aggressive climate agenda
August 5, 2021
Vantage Data Centers has joined forces with major global businesses in setting an aggressive (and much needed) climate agenda, and is set to reach Net Zero Carbon emissions as a company by 2030. Hats off! Hitting this Net Zero by 2030 target
As easy as CFD
June 30, 2021
As data centre cost-efficiency and environmental performance come under intense scrutiny, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) plays a major role in ensuring facility optimisation, says Gordon Johnson, senior CFD manager at Subzero Engineering. Since 2015, we’ve kept track of the various savings we
O2 focuses on keeping its (data centres) cool as 4 and 5G hot up
May 27, 2021
As lockdown eases and mobile data use sees 4G and 5G consumption hot up to new records, O2 is rolling out brand new smart cooling technology to better control the temperature at its data centres and boost the efficiency of its network
Vantage Data Centers: Renewable energy now an option for all customers
May 13, 2021
Vantage Data Centers is now providing access to renewable energy options at each of its North American and European campuses to enable customers to reduce their carbon emissions. Additionally, the company has hired two experts to lead its environmental sustainability commitments across
Why are data centres getting their cooling utilisation so wrong?
April 29, 2021
When it comes to cooling your facility, could you be overspending? According to Anuraag Saxena, optimisation manager at EkkoSense, you probably are.
That’s not so cool, is it?
February 19, 2021
With bog standard air conditioning taking up around 40% of a data centre’s entire power, you can imagine the myriad of new more advanced methods, despite their ‘green credentials’ are sucking up a heck of a lot more than that. So, you’d