US Government to invest $38m in decarbonising national laboratories

Each of the Department of Energy’s national laboratories houses heavy industrial facilities, energy-intensive data centres, reactors and other unique infrastructure that demands large amounts of continuous power

Internet energy use to double – ‘but data centres aren’t ready’

Research suggests that data centres are not sustainable enough to deal with online energy demands without emissions targets suffering

Apple’s green bonds funded a total of 17 renewable projects in 2020

Green bonds are issued to back projects that have positive environmental and climate benefits

Dropbox aims to become carbon-neutral by 2030

The cloud storage provider has also committed to source 100% renewable energy for its operations

Amazon inks ‘largest corporate’ wind PPA in the UK

It is part of the company’s commitment towards using 100% clean power by 2030

Amazon to deliver renewable energy in the US and Ireland

The wind and solar farm will supply power to Amazon Web Services’ data centres

Microsoft and Vattenfall team up for green data centres

They are working together to ensure the technology firm’s data centres are powered with 100% renewable energy

Giant solar farms to power Google’s data centres

The deal with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) covers 413MW of capacity

Microsoft Cloud could provide sunny outlook for low carbon data

The global technology firm claims its online solution is around 93% more energy efficient than real-life data centres

Facebook ‘friends’ Vattenfall for renewable energy

It is buying 100% of the electricity from three Norwegian wind projects to power its data centres in Denmark and Sweden