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Alphabet shakes up sustainability bond market with massive $5.75bn issuance

Google parent company makes ESG-focused bonds the centre piece of giant $10bn bond sale that secured record low borrowing costs

Investment
05 August 2020

Dropbox commits to combating climate impact of its data centres

Leading data transfer service promises to power its data centres using 100 per cent renewable power

Technology
05 August 2020

Google debuts Carbon-Intelligent Computing Platform

Tech giant announces new project is successfully shifting energy intensive computing processes to occur when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing

IT
23 April 2020

Global Briefing: Hopes build for New York Climate Summit breakthrough

USA offshore wind boost, Dutch climate court case, collapsing clean energy investment in Australia - a round up of green business news from around the world

Management
13 September 2019

Green data centre to use liquid immersion to cut emissions

Cornish data centre will be powered using on-site solar panels and local wind power

Technology
15 July 2019

Microsoft to double internal CO2 tax as it plots 'tech first' sustainability path

Software giant will also join corporate push for US carbon tax

Policy
16 April 2019

Google inks deal for power from 1.6 million solar panels

Tech giant reveals plans for two new US data centres to run on solar power

Solar
18 January 2019

Five things we learned from Google's green power data dump

Google is intent on sourcing carbon-free energy 24 hours a day - but it's more difficult than it sounds

Procurement
15 October 2018

Soluna plans to clean up Bitcoin's energy issues with renewables

Huge wind farm in the Sahara will power data centres dedicated to crypto-mining

IT
29 August 2018

Microsoft's energy master plan

Ultimately, its innovations could become a big selling advantage for its cloud services

IT
24 August 2018

Why IBM obsesses over energy efficiency

Plus, perspective on why the cloud software giant doesn't use unbundled renewable energy certificates

IT
13 July 2018

All at sea: Microsoft trials renewables-powered underwater Orkney data centre

IT giant believes under water data centres powered by wave and tidal energy may help provide energy efficient, superfast internet browsing in future

Marine
07 June 2018

Microsoft inks first Asia renewables deal in Sunseap rooftop solar tie-up

Technology giant will entirely power its Singapore data operations using solar electricity purchased from Sunseap's 60MW multi-rooftop array

Carbon Accounting
02 March 2018

Microsoft Seattle data centre to be powered by 'first of its kind' fuel cell technology

Solidpower currently installing 10 solid oxide fuel cells directly above each data server rack at one of Microsoft's Seattle data centres in bid to cut energy costs and emissions

Infrastructure
19 October 2017

Datacenter giant Equinix buys a bevy of Bloom fuel cells

Bloom Energy will install solid-oxide energy servers at 12 Equinix data centers in the United States

IT
18 August 2017

Apple confirms plans for second wind-powered Danish data centre

Tech giant says major new data centre facility will run entirely on local renewable power thanks to 30MW wind energy investment

IT
10 July 2017

SAP vows to go 'carbon neutral' by 2025

Business software giant aims to build on 100 per cent renewable electricity commitment with new plan to become 'carbon neutral'

IT
10 May 2017

Think green: Invest in the cloud

Switching to The Cloud can deliver significant cost, performance, and environmental gains

IT
29 March 2017

Data centres and energy consumption: A Donald Rumsfeld Conundrum

TechUK's Emma Fryer explores whether data centres are a help or a hindrance to efforts to curb UK energy use

IT
23 March 2017

Earlham Institute plans supercomputer switch to Iceland to slash energy costs 70 per cent

Research institute plans to harness Iceland's abundant supply of geothermal and hydroelectric power to cut carbon footprint and energy costs of its data centres