Green foundations: Can big tech help scale the sustainable cement sector?
Is electrochemistry the answer to cement's carbon conundrum?
Long Reads - Sustainability, Microsoft
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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All of the above - 2025 in energy and sustainability
With energy demand skyrocketing data centers have looked all over to secure power for their facilities
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A Waste(d) Opportunity: How can the UK utilize data center waste heat?
Heat reuse from data centers remains underutilized in the UK, is that about to change?
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Drilling for data: Can geothermal power meet hyperscale ambitions?
Meta and others have thrown their backing behind experimental geothermal projects as energy demand from AI continues to rise
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Watt’s Next? How can batteries be best utilized in the data center sector?
A deep dive into the many use cases of battery energy storage
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Running Microsoft Cloud during the AI boom
Nuclear power, robot dreams, and the sinking of Project Natick
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Evaluating carbon capture’s promise
Taking carbon out of the atmosphere sounds like a brilliant idea. Why is it controversial?
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High hopes for fusion
Microsoft has signed a PPA for fusion power. Is this a serious proposition?
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Finally - a nuclear powered data center?
We’ve heard talk of nuclear-powered facilities for some years. Could the time have arrived?
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Building underwater
Projects in the US and China have shown that data centers underwater could be more efficient than those on land. But how do you build them?
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Re-use, refurb, recycle: Circular economy thinking and data center IT assets
Covid-19 and supply chain issues are driving up interest in circular thinking for servers and networking gear, but will hyperscalers and hardware-as-a-service OEMs make it the norm?
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Microsoft: Hydrogen fuel cells will enable data centers to completely rethink electrical systems
Cloud giant Microsoft is experimenting with hydrogen fuel cells as a replacement for diesel backup and, potentially, much more
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Project Natick: Microsoft's underwater voyage of discovery
DCD exclusive: Microsoft’s underwater data center experiment employed wave energy and post-quantum cryptography on the seabed off Scotland. But the big lessons could be learnt on land
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Curing concrete’s carbon curse
Data centers create emissions before they are built. It’s time to address the footprint of basic building materials
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Power Struggle
Data centers lead the way to a post-fossil fuel world. But it may not be a smooth journey
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How data centers pay for renewable energy
Data centers are meeting their green energy goals and paying to have new renewable energy supplies delivered into the grid - through RECs and PPAs