It's time to tame the Wild West of carbon capture
It’s necessary, but not the way many people are proposing now
Industry Views - Standards & Regulations, Peter Judge, DCD
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Let's stop pretending that volume-based PPAs are a net-zero strategy
Only hourly matching gives an incentive to decarbonize the grid
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Oops - there’s a big hole in carbon accounting
By ignoring the circular economy, the GHG Protocol may push organizations to waste resources
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A microgrid could turn you into a power company
... and it might just help build good relationships with your neighbors
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AI Safety? Rishi Sunak is all in for Elon Musk's work-free fantasy
Simple politicians don't stand a chance against smug billionaires
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Welcome to the world of politics
As an industry watcher, I wish every country could have a technopolitical bust-up as good as the one going on in Germany
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Reporting standards could help kill greenwash
New rules should make it possible to compare companies' environmental claims
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Could regulations persuade operators to share backup power?
Government intervention might help promote data center operators getting closer to the grid
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Microsoft's veiled threats to the UK over Activision reveal a lot
When post-Brexit Britain flexes its muscles, Brad Smith is not impressed
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Trump is back on Facebook; the rest of us are expendable
If you can't generate commercial controversy, you are not worth Meta's attention
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Concerned about Germany's "data center prevention" law? You asked for it!
If data centers promise something, they will be expected to deliver it
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Data centers should be more like alcohol, less like tobacco
Data centers need to accept their place in a regulated world
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Now London faces a data center power struggle
As in Dublin, Singapore, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, digital developments in London could face opposition
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This week, Brexit is hurting business and science
The technology field will be hurt by the Data Bill and the breakdown of Horizon
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Lessons from the Amsterdam sleeping server war
If we want to avoid futile arguments like these, we need better IT carbon footprint measures
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Let's cap total data center energy use!
Maybe it’s time to take the moratorium idea a little bit further
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Do we need the State to take a hand?
China has a three year plan for digital infrastructure. Maybe the rest of us should consider the idea
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What if AI is the problem, not the solution?
If data is the new oil, AI could be the new snake oil.
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Clearing the smoke when fire strikes
Dealing with the actual destruction is just the first step...
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Signs of hope, from a continent with climate-neutral ambitions
The US is back on board the Paris climate accord which is good. The lesson from Europe is that no one can do it on their own
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Diversity won't solve itself
If we want to make data centers more inclusive, it will take more than fine words
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Data sovereignty will immobilize data centers
Efforts to bring the web under national laws will force data centers to stay in-country
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How do you back up a country?
Dgitized nations have to consider their backup options…
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Are we ready to rebuild Brexit's burnt bridges?
Brexit will dent the cohesion of European business infrastructure. It will be tech’s job to rebuild it
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Fifty years of privacy fear
Data centers are older than you think… and so are fears of intrusion
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Paris noise protest won't be the last
The rise of edge data centers means Interxion Paris won’t be the last data center to annoy its neighbors
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Data centers can be economic migrants
Displaced people need help, but data centers on the move are a fact of life
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Can management quell the embedded threat?
Data centers face a risk from their power and cooling systems. But managing for efficiency ought to reduce the danger