The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact has committed the European cloud and data centre industry to ambitious sustainability measures, with twenty-five companies and 17 associations from across Europe having agreed to take specific steps to make data centres climate neutral by 2030.
Scality has announced an initiative with Reforest’Action to plant 14,000 trees to help address climate change in California and Europe by the end of 2021.
Migration to the public cloud can achieve significant carbon reduction in the form of a 5.9% decrease in total IT emissions, or nearly 60 million tons of CO2 globally per year – the equivalent of taking 22 million cars off the road,
With the internet and data centres being the biggest growth industry in the UK, electrical demand is continuing to drive climate change. Together, data centre specialist, Professor Ian Bitterlin, and water pump manufacturer Wilo UK, have identified how chilled water pumps could
Microsoft believes that it can do more for the environment than many of its peers who have pledged to go carbon neutral, which is why the firm has announced its ambition to be carbon negative by 2030. That beats Amazon’s pledge to
Microsoft believes that it can do more for the environment than many of its peers who have pledged to go carbon neutral, which is why the firm has announced its ambition to be carbon negative by 2030. That beats Amazon’s pledge to
Microsoft believes that it can do more for the environment than many of its peers who have pledged to go carbon neutral, which is why the firm has announced its ambition to be carbon negative by 2030. That beats Amazon’s pledge to
Riello UPS is hoping to cut down its plastic waste by making subtle changes to its office culture. The company hopes that its small changes will make a big impact on the environment.
The IT industry has been typified for years as being geared towards efficiency and maximising profit, but it seems the next generation of leaders believe that reducing the industry’s impact on the environment is the most important path to take.
Jordan O’Brien talks to UKFast CTO Neil Lathwood to find out what went into the design phase of its data centres to become carbon neutral.
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