Equinix, a big data centre multinational, says that in the UK, more than 95% of its energy is already provided by wind and solar, and that it is on track to get to 100% by 2030.

Schneider Electric, a French firm that builds power supplies for data centres, projects that AI’s share of data-centre electricity use will jump from 8% in 2023 to 15-20% in 2028. Further gains ...

In London, a data centre task force has been set up to co-ordinate energy and planning responses across the capital, following signs in 2022 that the growth in data centres near fibre optic cable ...

In August, Dublin rejected Google’s application to build a new data centre, citing insufficient capacity in the electricity grid and the lack of significant on-site renewable energy to power the ...

And data centre developers are doing just that. Investment firm Digital Transformation Capital Partners has launched new data centre platform GreenScale and is planning to deploy 170 MW of ...

Countries are building power plants and upgrading electricity grids to meet the forecasted energy demand for data centres. But the IEA estimates that 20% of planned centres could face delays being ...

New research has found that data centres can reduce their energy usage by up to 30% simply by altering around 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel’s network stack. New research has found that ...

Data centres (which house the servers and computing equipment needed to store digital information), AI and cryptocurrencies are driving an increase in electricity demand in several regions. Together, ...

The scale can be hard to comprehend. Blackstone’s £10B ($13B) deal to build a data centre campus at Cambois in Northumberland, north-east England, will see the U.S. firm invest more in one deal ...

Data centres are key part of running any business ... For power outages, for example, organisations need to ensure there's a reliable backup system that can keep it going. ...

Data centres are putting a potentially unsustainable strain on the nation's electricity grid, Ireland's utilities watchdog has warned. The situation has become so bad that Ireland's Commission for ...