Sustainability
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Water pressure closes in on Warsaw data centre plan
A four-building data centre development near Warsaw is facing opposition over water demand as existing supply problems push cooling design and utility capacity deeper into the planning debate.
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Heathrow Estate data centre clears Hounslow planning vote
Hounslow councillors have backed redevelopment of Heathrow Estate for up to 50,000 sq m of data centre space, supported by a proposed 80MVA electricity connection and a required water-minimisation strategy.
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Amazon’s Ridgeway backup plant enters permit process
Amazon Data Services UK is seeking an environmental permit for emergency backup generation rated at 50MW thermal input or more at its Ridgeway data centre in Iver.
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Slough resilience plant moves into environmental permitting
Iron Mountain has applied for a bespoke environmental permit covering combustion equipment with aggregate rated thermal input of at least 50MW at its Dundee Road data centre site in Slough.
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Water networks start pricing in data centre growth
Ofwat has provisionally allowed £477m of additional water-sector investment for growth pressures including data centres, bringing another utility constraint into the UK’s digital infrastructure build-out.
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Florence brownfield scheme ties compute to solar, hydrogen and heat
Comtel and H2-Era plan to place a data centre inside a Tuscan brownfield redevelopment combining solar generation, hydrogen production, vertical farming, and recovery of server heat.
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Esbjerg puts flexible power at the heart of DDC1
Construction has started on an 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre designed to vary electricity demand, use energy storage, recirculate cooling water, and ultimately send surplus heat into the local district heating network.
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Data centres enter sustainable-finance growth engine
ING expects data centres, renewable energy, and associated infrastructure to remain major drivers of sustainable financing through 2026 and 2027.
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Scotland’s green data centre plan faces scrutiny
Scotland faces renewed scrutiny over delivery of its green data centre strategy.
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Chemours launches low-GWP data centre refrigerants
Chemours has added lower-GWP refrigerants for data centre chiller applications.