Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

Learn how to green your datacentre with advice on increasing datacentre energy efficiency, building a case for a sustainable datacentre, and complying with UK and EU energy-efficiency regulations.

April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22
Uptime Institute supports datacentre operators with honing their sustainability strategies

In the wake of research highlighting the patchy progress operators have made to-date on sustainability initiatives, the Uptime Institute debuts series of reports to help the datacentre sector improve its environmental standing
April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22
Google Cloud research highlights disconnect between intention and delivery on green IT initiatives

Google Cloud research reveals disconnects between intention, delivery and budgets within businesses across EMEA on sustainability matters
April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22
APAC enterprises are reducing their datacentre footprint

Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are moving from their own datacentres into co-location facilities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and lower their carbon footprint
April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22
HPE offers up progress report on how its space-based supercomputer is performing

Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with

Interview: LF Energy on using open source to ready energy systems for phasing out fossil fuels

With the climate crisis putting increasing pressure on countries to decarbonise their economies, the founder of open source championing LF Energy talks about digitising power networks to be ready for renewables Continue Reading
Weighing up the nuclear option for powering datacentres

Resourcing energy-hungry IT through the race to reduce carbon emissions means looking objectively at all the options, including nuclear power Continue Reading
A waste of energy: Dealing with idle servers in the datacentre

Servers can be the slackers of the datacentre, consuming power without doing much work. Why not whip them into shape? Continue Reading

COP26: IT's role in tackling climate change

Far from being a clean sector, IT is an immense consumer of natural resources and electricity. The majority of the world’s semiconductors are manufactured in Taiwanese fabrication plants (fabs), ... Continue Reading
A prophetic look back at Green IT

Back in the summer of 2008, we surveyed almost 1500 IT professionals regarding IT and the environment. While many of the research findings still very much apply today, little did we know that some ... Continue Reading
Under the microscope: Different datacentre sustainability strategies

In this guest post, Kyle Myers, director of environmental health, safety and sustainability at colocation giant CyrusOne on why the colocation community needs to look beyond carbon reduction ... Continue Reading

How the tech sector can lead the green revolution

Tech has often been highlighted as a contributor to climate change, but technology innovation will be central to achieving a net-zero economy Continue Reading
The path towards sustainable sustainability

More enterprises need to build sustainability ecosystems, incorporate sustainability into their business strategy and develop sustainability policies Continue Reading
Putting edge computing centre stage in the UK’s fourth industrial revolution

The fourth industrial revolution will see every sector become a data-driven digital sector, with computing at the edge – which has power implications Continue Reading