While carbon-free energy is crucial to reducing GHG emissions and water consumption, green energy alone is not enough to maintain sustainable operations and address the adverse environmental impact of data centres. Here, Nour Rteil, Lead Application Developer at Techbuyer, discusses the importance of implementing energy efficient servers, for example, to reduce carbon impact on the […]
The operator of the UK’s largest purpose-built data centre campus is to host an event to showcase how the facility can support the energy industry as the oilfield continues to digitise. Stellium Data Centres, which has an office in Aberdeen, is holding the virtual event on Wednesday, April 13 to highlight to oil and gas […]
Mike Hayes, Applications Specialist, FlaktGroup, discusses the evolution of cooling technology in the data centre space and provides insight into how the organisation offers cooling solutions to its customers to allow them to meet their business and sustainability goals. Can you introduce yourself to our readers? I’m Mike Hayes, an application specialist at FlaktGroup, looking […]
In order to restore the growing imbalance between power utilities and the data centre sector, the two must engage and work together to find some equilibrium in an industry that is required to achieve zero carbon by 2030. Ed Ansett, Founder of i3 Solutions Group, discusses the energy sector in transition and how this transitioning energy […]
Tony Whittle, Managing Director, Enel X UK&I, discusses some of the ways data centre operators around the world can satisfy the competing demands of alleviating pressure on the grid, particularly as they face the mounting pressure of operating sustainably. Overcoming challenges to enable the transition to renewable energy and address growing energy demand are priorities […]
The Groupement Orange Services (GOS), a resource-pooling entity for the 18 Orange Middle East and Africa (OMEA) subsidiaries, provides pooled hosting and infrastructure operation services, service platforms and IT to all the subsidiaries. The data centre in Africa was built in 2016 in Grand Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire, on a site covering 16,600 m² and hosts […]
The challenges of running a data centre are ever increasing, as is the demand for running carbon neutral facilities. Here, EkkoSense identifies the five issues operations teams will need to resolve to successfully balance increased workloads while still securing carbon savings. EkkoSense has identified five key issues that data centre teams need to address to […]
Caterpillar has announced that the company has launched a three-year project through a collaboration with Microsoft and Ballard Power Systems to demonstrate a power system incorporating a large-format hydrogen fuel cell to produce reliable and sustainable backup power for data centres. The project is supported and partially funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) […]
Data centres could play critical role in enabling more renewable energy as their power demand in Europe is set to double, a new study has found. Large data centres in the UK, Germany, Ireland, Norway and the Netherlands are projected to draw 5.4GW (gigawatts) in ‘live IT power’ demand in 2030, up from 3GW at […]
Bunduq is leveraging StorageCraft’s OneXafe platform to scale-out immutable storage architecture technology to improve scalability, simplify its backup and replication process and make substantial cuts to the company’s storage footprint. Muayad Fahmawi, Bunduq’s IT Supervisor – who heads up the company’s IT team – looks to equip the business with best-of-industry technology and solutions. Bunduq […]
