DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Sustainability, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Caransa Group to build Amsterdam's first district heating data center
This will be the first data center to supply waste heat to Amsterdam's residential areas
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Echelon DC to fund electricity substation for giant off-shore Irish wind farm
SSE's 500MW Arklow Bank Wind Park gets a land connection and a 100MW customer
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Facebook begins data center and district heating expansion in Odense, Denmark
Facebook is adding another 30,000 square meters to the campus which will heat more homes
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Aruba to expand Milan campus with two data centers, solar panels, and hydropower
The new data centers will be covered, wall to roof, in solar panels
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Apple invests in two huge turbines to power Viborg data center
Just make stuff bigger
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Digital Realty signs with Pattern Energy for 105MW solar farm to power Dallas data centers
Digital signed a PPA with Pattern Energy to use the plant's power for 12 years
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KPN to pilot recycled plastic fiber optic cabling
The company hopes the change will cause several positive knock-on effects
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Amazon to build third Irish wind farm to meet climate pledge
The wind farm will bring the company's renewable power capability in Ireland to around 229MW
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Simec Atlantis Energy's coal plant/data center conversion split into two phases due to Covid-19
The data center will use fuel pellets made of biomass and non-recyclable plastic
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Telia Estonia to build solar plant to cut costs at its Laagri data center
Should be up and powering some of the data center by the end of summer
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Floating data center firm Nautilus secures $100m loan from Orion Energy Partners
Nautilus will use the sum to fund its aquatic data center projects
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Rolls-Royce and Daimler Truck AG to co-develop data center fuel cells
This project will be in operation by the end of the year
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LUMI supercomputer to use district heating for cooling
Pre-exascale system hopes to keep Finnish citizens toasty
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Green Mountain plans data center campus on 54 acre plot in Kalberg, Norway
The site is made ideal by close links to a substation and submarine cable landing station
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Plouton pitches $7m solar data center in California
Plouton offers $7m stock in a microgrid facility with its own solar farm
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Asperitas and Shell announce new cooling platform and immersion liquid
Asperitas brings a bigger tub and Shell reveals a new cooling fluid
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US and Canada could have greener grids at a lower cost with two-way power transmission
MIT research suggests using Canada as an energy reservoir
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Google's Nevada data center to be powered by billion-dollar solar farm
The state's energy provider is already signing PPAs with developers to feed its clients
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Greenpeace ranks Chinese tech firms by renewable usage
Energy use by China’s Internet industry is set to skyrocket, says the group
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BP to shut down European data centers, move workloads over to AWS
A date for when the move will be completed hasn't been set
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Amazon invests in three new renewable energy projects in US and Spain
A date for their completion hasn't yet been set
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New solar farm planned for Facebook's data center campus in Georgia
107MW coming online in 2021
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Google opens $600m Tennessee data center
Expect more facilities shortly
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Swedish wind energy project lifts off, will power Finnish Google data center
The one time you hope for a windy day
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DCD>London: European data centers and the sustainability challenge
It's always easier in Norway
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Google invests $850m for another hyperscale facility in Taiwan
Google's Taiwanese data center gets some company