Sustainability
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Heiligenhaus solar covers a sliver of data demand
Yexio has installed 244kWp of solar generation at its Heiligenhaus data centre, forecasting 220MWh a year against a facility capable of scaling from 2MW to 4MW.
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Lombardy weighs 120MW against land, water, and power
A proposed 120MW data centre near Travagliato is entering infrastructure procedures as Lombardy begins applying regional rules covering grid capacity, land, water, energy efficiency, heat reuse, and environmental mitigation.
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NFrance cools Toulouse without a drop
NFrance has completed a live cooling retrofit that it says cut cooling power by about 20%, removed operational water use, and protected hosted services throughout installation.
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Lombardy puts megawatts on the map
Lombardy has brought data centre power, water, land, and heat reuse into a dedicated regional planning regime as Milan’s infrastructure pipeline expands.
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Kent landfill gas enters the AI power queue
Era4’s Broad Oak proposal uses landfill gas for AI capacity.
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A North Sea gas field becomes an AI power plan
Orcadian proposes offshore gas-to-wire power for AI data centre capacity.
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Europe’s data centre zones face a sovereignty fight
SOMO warns acceleration zones could deepen Europe’s cloud dependency.
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Austria’s EIA rules meet hyperscale reality
WWF Austria wants large data centres written into environmental assessment law after Google’s expanding Kronstorf campus avoided a full EIA.
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AWS clears Aragón’s environmental gate
AWS has secured environmental authorisation for another Zaragoza data centre, moving the project towards construction within its expanding Aragón infrastructure programme.
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Heathrow retrofit lifts power headroom
Redcentric has completed a major UPS upgrade at its Heathrow data centre, protecting 7MW of critical load and enabling future scaling to 10.5MW.