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The GHG Protocol lacks circular economy incentivisation. When it comes to the letter of the law the GHG Protocol doesn’t account for the benefits of re-use and product life extension. It encourages multi-stakeholder processes to develop guidance but doesn’t explicitly cater for circul...

Interact publishes in IEEE Journal of Sustainable Computing – Impact of temperature on data centre and server efficiency and performance.   The IEEE Journal of Sustainable Computing is in the top 5% of all academic journals published worldwide. We have published in this Journal befo...

Another important strand of Interact’s sustainability strategy has been achieved this month with the confirmation of Interact as a B Corp and also receiving our EcoVadis Silver rating (rated top 25% of all sustainable businesses). We went through the process last year and received ou...

Image credit: European Union 2018 - EP All EU data centers with an installed IT power demand of 500 KW or more, are mandated to report and follow the rules set by the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) to commit to the EU’s energy efficiency targets.   What’s new? The d...

Image credit: UN, 2020 When thinking of data centres’ environmental impact, energy consumption and carbon footprint often take center stage. But the role of water is equally important, if not more so. Data centers consume water across two main categories: directly through cooling and i...