Sustainability
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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.
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AI data centres run into the rulebook
Authorities in Europe and beyond are tightening controls on data centre development as AI demand turns electricity, water, land, and community impact into planning constraints.
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Washington puts AI power bills on notice
The US is pressing data centre and AI companies to shield electricity customers from infrastructure costs.
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Avonmouth data centre enters permit test
The Environment Agency is consulting on an environmental permit application for Avonmouth Data Centre in Bristol.
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Europe’s AI boom meets the water bill
Bluefield Research expects European data centre water infrastructure spending to reach €6.8bn by 2036.
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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.
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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.