DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Sustainability, Will Calvert, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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$3bn "solar data center" proposed in Arizona
Pegasus Holdings and Plus Minus Power (now merged) say they will have a solar farm and data center up and running this fall
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Amazon applies to prevent release of Australian data center emission figures
More than 400 Australian companies have already published their emissions and energy data for the financial year 2017-18
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New York power plants could become hyperscale data centers in $650 million conversion
As the coal-burning plants cannot hit strict carbon dioxide targets
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Sweden's EcoDataCenter to merge with Fortlax
With the aim of consolidating the Nordic data center region
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After aquifer concerns, Google's $600m South Carolina expansion finds new water supply
An agreement for five million gallons of water to be pumped every day could help provide Google's Goose Creek data center with server cooling
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Facebook directly invests $416 million in 379MW Texas solar farm
The company is the sole investor in the project and will share the farm's energy output with Shell Energy
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Facebook signs PPA for 122MW of solar power in Utah
The facility is expected to start generating electricity in 2020
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Large data center and solar farm project pitched for Chesterfield, Virginia
The project could hold four data centers and generate 150MW of solar power
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Microsoft to build "sustainable" data centers in Sweden
With renewable energy supplied by Vattenfall
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Microsoft signs 15 year PPA for 90MW in Netherlands
Bringing the company's global clean power purchase to 1.5GW
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Nautilus' proposed Californian data center waylaid by seals
Environmental concerns slow progress on the company's planned data center in Alameda, California
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QTS to power two data centers with 100 percent renewable energy, via PPAs
Bringing the company's total of solely wind powered data centers to three
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Google's $600 million Minnesota data center clears energy hurdle
The data center might not open until 2021 and Xcel energy will provide 300MW of wind for the facility
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EWL starts construction on 4MW nuclear bunker data center in Switzerland
It's nuke-proof, tsunami-proof and cooled using renewable energy, what's not to like?
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Facebook and Dominion sign solar deal for 350MW of clean power
The deal will provide Facebook with six new solar farms to power its data centers and gives Dominion a chance to boost its renewable energy portfolio
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Microsoft promises its data centers will use 60% renewable energy by 2020
"Time is too short, resources too thin and the impact too large to wait for all the answers to act"
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Amazon employees call on top brass to release climate change plan
Employees who signed the letter opted to leave their name and job title open to the public, a rare move for a company known for its secrecy
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Internet Initiative Japan completes 50MW data center in Shiroi, Japan
The facility will be IIJ’s second in Shiroi and the security for the data center will be handled by a robot
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AWS commits to 91MW wind farm in Donegal, Ireland
The cloud giant will use a trio of wind farms in Ireland, California and Sweden
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Kyocera to build snow-cooled data center, fully powered by renewable energy
Every data center is a unique snowflake
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DCD>Energy Smart: Greenpeace's Gary Cook wants you to hold utility suppliers to account
The data center industry can only reach its renewable commitments if it moves away from buying existing energy credits and into PPAs
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Orange Belgium opens data center in Antwerp
The energy efficient data center makes it the only CO²-neutral telecom operator in Belgium for its network and buildings
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Eco-friendly data center project planned for central France
The data center project will use waste heat to dehydrate alfalfa
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Microsoft buys 125MW of renewable energy from Ohio wind farms
Enough to power the equivalent of more than 36,000 homes annually
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DigiPlex is helping NetNordic consolidate its data centers
Supporting migration from five in-house facilities to two colocation data centers in the Oslo area
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Atlantic Hub gets first planning permission for Northern Ireland campus
With plans for a twin facility in Donegal, Ireland
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Amazon is breaking its renewable energy commitments, Greenpeace claims
A report by the environmental organization suggests that AWS has failed to live up to promises to power its data centers with 100 percent renewable energy