Sustainability
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Efficiency cannot outrun Nebius’s emissions
Nebius reported efficient cooling and heat-reuse performance in 2025, while rapid infrastructure expansion lifted market-based Scope 1 and 2 emissions to 65,001 tonnes.
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NTT DATA takes energy strategy across three markets
NTT DATA and ENGIE have agreed energy arrangements in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands, including wind power for UK data centres until September 2030.
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A 24MW wind farm anchors three-market power pact
NTT Data and Engie have established a power partnership across the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, beginning with supply from an operating South Wales wind farm.
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Efficiency ratios face an absolute-use test
WorldGBC has proposed nine data centre policy principles covering efficiency, energy, water, heat recovery, biodiversity, pollution, and planning, with absolute resource use placed alongside PUE and WUE.
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Cyber rules reach the control cabinet
European Commission guidance has clarified how the Cyber Resilience Act applies to connected products, remote services, support periods, modifications, and vulnerability reporting ahead of September obligations.
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Australia’s data centre rules run into politics
A proposed national framework for data centres has reportedly stalled after state-level resistance over energy, water, and siting controls.
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Cooling starts borrowing from waste heat
Johnson Controls has released an absorption chiller guide for AI data centres using on-site power and recoverable heat.
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Mocean sends AI racks to sea
Mocean Energy’s Blue Core concept would combine wave power, solar, storage, satellite links, and ocean cooling.
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London opens the grey belt question
London’s draft plan would allow data centres on some grey belt sites, with power, water, cooling, and heat conditions attached.
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The data centre drifts offshore
Bureau Veritas has granted approval in principle to Seatrium’s 30MW floating data centre concept.