The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Microsoft claims water positivity across data center operations
Did not disclose water consumption levels
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Bio-inspired in-chip cooling company Corintis raises $25m in round led by Applied Digital
AI-designed cooling routes look like butterfly wings
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Microsoft partners with Corintis for bio-inspired in-chip microfluidic cooling
Claims three times the performance of cold plates
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AI data center growth deepens water security concerns in high-stress states - report
Two-thirds of new data centers since 2022 are in locations with high levels of water stress
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Microsoft study finds liquid cooling can cut data center emissions by up to 21%
The study, which took place over two years, studied air cooling, cold plates, one-phase immersion and two-phase immersion for servers
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Hyperscalers prepare for 1MW racks at OCP EMEA; Google announces new CDU
Hyperscalers look to disaggregate power from IT to reach 1MW racks
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Microsoft to use LG Electronics cooling infrastructure in some AI data centers
As LG goes after more data center customers
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Microsoft's upcoming data centers to use closed loop, zero-water evaporation design
Will be deployed at Phoenix and Mount Pleasant facilities from 2026
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Microsoft launches DPU and new HSM chips, also launches hybrid infrastructure platform Azure Local
And other Microsoft updates from Ignite 2024
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Microsoft adopting direct-to-chip liquid cooling, exploring microfluidics
Company increased water use by more than 1 million cubic meters last year
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Microsoft to warm homes with waste heat from Danish data center
Facility in Høje-Taastrup will heat 6,000 dwellings
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China's HiCloud reports commercial underwater data center modules are working
1,400-ton facility launched late in 2023 is stable
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Microsoft's slow outage recovery in Sydney due to insufficient staff on site
Only three people on site at time of power outage
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YouTuber builds submersible PC
You too could have your own mini Project Natick
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Sabey president says hyperscalers are blocking colo efficiency improvements - Report
Big cloud players run their own data centers warmer, but insist on over-cooling by wholesale providers, says Sabey's Rob Rockwood
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Microsoft to swap water for air cooling at campus in Phoenix, Arizona
Company making switch as city’s infrastructure can’t handle more wastewater
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Data center power surge and cooling failure brings down Microsoft Azure services
Causing outages in South East Asia
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Drought-stricken Holland discovers Microsoft data center slurped 84m liters of drinking water last year
After the company and local authority said the facility would only need 12 to 20 million liters
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Subsea Cloud promises underwater data centers for Singapore
Underwater pods could ease Singapore's data center issues, says Subsea founder
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Microsoft announces new Finland cloud region - with district heating by Fortum
Fortum finds a partner to heat homes West of Helsinki
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Microsoft plans to reduce data center water use 95 percent by 2024, saving 5.7 billion liters
Big gains could come from simply running data center hotter
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Four Chinese authorities back underwater data centers
Two provinces and two cities have written submarine facilities into their five-year plans
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Quincy, Washington to open Microsoft-funded water treatment plant
Data centers paying for what they use
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Microsoft plans to use rainwater to cool Dutch environmental data center protests
After papers revealed data centers could drink Hollands-Kroon dry, Microsoft hit back on TV
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HPE, Facebook, and Microsoft make Low-Carbon Patent Pledge, open up patents for low carbon data centers
Patents opened up for use include Microsoft’s Project Natick submerged data center IP
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Wiwynn invests in Bitfury's liquid cooling spinout, LiquidStack
And the tech is already on trial in Microsoft's Azure cloud
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Microsoft partners with Wiwynn to test two-phase immersion cooling in production deployment
Chips are getting hotter, and that means cooling needs to get more extreme
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Microsoft funds Quincy data center wastewater treatment plant
Other data centers will be able to connect, if they pay their fair share