Sustainability
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Kiloutou reports construction power fuel savings
Kiloutou Énergie reports monthly savings of 2,279 litres of diesel from a battery-supported generator at a French data centre construction site. The comparison is based on supplier telemetry and a conventional generator-only baseline.
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Polish campus discloses cooling and water requirements
Developer Sien Real has disclosed cooling, heat rejection and water requirements for a proposed four-building campus near Warsaw. Residents are seeking the underlying environmental modelling and clearer evidence about water and electricity infrastructure.
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Capital Concrete details Docklands foundation mix specifications
Capital Concrete has detailed the specialist foundation mixes supplied to an East London data centre project, including DC4 concrete and selected recipes with approximately 70% cement replacement using GGBS.
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Swedish study measures cooling and server energy
Researchers used more than 2.6 million measurements from an Ericsson data centre room to allocate electricity and cooling consumption across individual processes, finding that two functions dominated its energy use.
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Lombardy outlines timetable for data centre amendments
Lombardy is preparing amendments to its data centre legislation after receiving more than 60 applications representing around 11GW of requested capacity. The proposals have not yet been enacted.
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Study maps English data centre water constraints
Newcastle University researchers have modelled how data centre siting choices across England change when population coverage is balanced against water stress. Their results favour northern districts, subject to significant planning limitations.
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Parliament extends scrutiny of EU data centre ratings
The European Parliament has requested more time to examine the Commission’s proposed common data centre rating scheme. The extension is procedural, with no regulation rejected or brought into force.
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Cato campus faces Hallyards Castle heritage constraint
The proposed 600MW Cato data centre in Fife faces a further planning issue around the remains of Hallyards Castle while environmental assessment of the hyperscale project continues.
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Drax data centre faces contested emissions analysis
Campaign modelling estimates that a full 1.2GW Drax data centre supplied largely by biomass could require 4.9 million tonnes of wood annually and emit 8.6 million tonnes of CO₂, figures Drax disputes.
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Chapelcross data centre passes 1,000 objections
More than 1,000 objections have been lodged against the proposed Chapelcross hyperscale campus as scrutiny grows around its power ambition approaching 1GW, greenfield land use and projected greenhouse gas effects.