Sustainability
-
Microsoft’s carbon bill follows AI build-out
Microsoft’s latest sustainability reporting shows how AI and cloud infrastructure growth is complicating carbon, water, and renewable energy claims.
-
Scaleway folds heat-reuse HPC into its cloud
Scaleway has acquired Qarnot, adding dedicated HPC and waste-heat-recovery capability to its European cloud and AI platform.
-
Wrocław tests the heat beneath compute
Wrocław University of Science and Technology is exploring data centre heat reuse with Kogeneracja for the city’s district heating network.
-
Aruba turns rivers into data centre power
Aruba has acquired three operational hydroelectric plants in Piedmont, extending its direct-generation strategy for Italian digital infrastructure.
-
Power starts rewriting Europe’s data centre map
Moody’s analysis links Europe’s capacity race to grid access, water stress, cooling conditions, and infrastructure delivery risk.
-
Fairwater noise claim reaches the cooling yard
Microsoft’s Wisconsin AI data centre faces a noise lawsuit, putting cooling fans and local impact into the planning-risk frame.
-
Quinbrook puts capital behind the grid
Quinbrook’s new £587m UK and Ireland fund backs renewables, storage, grid stability, and energy transition infrastructure.
-
Ecolab buys the cold plate layer
Ecolab has completed its $4.75bn CoolIT acquisition, adding direct liquid cooling hardware to its water and optimisation platform.
-
Britain counts the gigawatts
CITP’s UK build-out analysis puts numbers on capacity, ownership, geography, energy demand, and the case for a national data centre strategy.
-
Scotland draws a line around hyperscale
SNP backing for a hyperscale moratorium raises pressure on the Scottish Government as AI campus proposals test energy and planning policy.