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Rich Kenny and I have been helping deliver free of charge training sessions with Interreg NW funded research project Circular Economy in the Data Centre Industry (CEDaCI) recently. Charged with delivery of the product life extension section of the sessions, we have also learned a lot about lifecycle...

November 2021 saw news of the first UK data centre passing rises in energy costs on to its customers. M247, an IT and hosting firm, announced a 161% increase in its colocation, networking and cloud services provision at its Manchester site. This was a fraction of the 550% rise in energy prices in th...

Sustainable start-up’s pioneering technology impresses international judging panels Yorkshire-based start-up, Interact, has been recognised at several national and international awards. The start-up – a sister company of global sustainable IT specialist, Techbuyer – conducts com...

Green Finance is a growth area at the moment. A recent Global Compact conference devoted an entire section to this, as did the Business Green Net Zero Festival this September, which I was fortunate enough to attend. These were no tree-hugging events. Speakers at the Net Zero Festival were from Mi...

As our demand for online services grows rapidly, data centres must make vital changes to meet this demand sustainably and reduce the footprint of their cloud services sooner than later. According to a recent report by International Data Center (IDC), cloud computing can potentially eliminate 1 billi...