Oregon Bill Would Penalize Data Centers for Failure to Meet Emissions Requirements Starting in 2027

A bill before the Oregon state legislature would penalize data centers for not meeting emissions standards starting in 2027 and could — if approved in Oregon and similar measures are adopted by other states — have significant implications for hyperscalers and HPC organizations with heavy electrical requirements. A story in yesterday’s The Oregonian reported that […]

LiquidStack Secures Series B Funding from Trane Technologies

BOSTON, March 22, 2023 — LiquidStack, maker of liquid immersion cooling solutions for data centers, has received an investment from Trane Technologies, a climate company. Trane Technologies, through its strategic brand Trane, is a sustainable heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) company and an infrastructure supplier to the data center industry. The investment will support […]

AWS Adopting HVO to Decarbonize Data Centers in Europe

March 20, 2023 — Amazon Web Services said today it has begun transitioning to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to power backup generators at its data centers in Europe, with sites in Ireland and Sweden among the first to make the switch. Backup generators are used at data centre sites to provide back up power in […]

LUMI Wins Green Data Centre Award

London — March 8 — The LUMI data center has been recognized in the 2023 Data Centre World Awards for the Green Data Centre of the Year. The award was presented at the Data Centre World event in London on 8 March 2023. LUMI is an HPE-Cray EX supercomputer powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and […]

Green Revolution Cooling Onboards Castrol to ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program for Immersion Cooling

AUSTIN and LEWISTON, NY – March 6, 2023 –  Immersion cooling company GRC (Green Revolution Cooling) announced today that lubricant company Castrol will join GRC’s ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program, a platform designed to advance the performance of single-phase immersion cooling fluids. GRC’s ElectroSafe range of liquid coolants are deployed in 22 countries. The range is intended […]

Azure, AMD and the Power of Cloud-based HPC for Sustainability R&D Projects

Sustainability – both in the way it operates and in its support for the development of sustainable technologies and products – is a theme that permeates the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform and its end-user community. Azure, in combination with advanced and ultra-efficient CPUs from AMD….

Iceotope Teams with HPE, Intel and nVent on Liquid Cooled Open RAN for the Edge

Barcelona, February 27, 2023 — Liquid cooling company Iceotope has announced what it said is a highly efficient and scalable Open RAN solution to support far edge computing across telco data center estates. Created with demanding workloads in mind, Ku:l Extreme is designed to be an integrated, standardized solution that offers sustainability, energy efficiency and […]

GlobalConnect Claims First with Submerged Cooling Colo in Europe

Copenhagen — Feb. 16, 2023 — Digital infrastructure provider GlobalConnect Groupsaid today it is the first colocation provider in Europe to offer submerged cooling to its customers, reducing datacenter power consumption for cooling by up to 90 percent. The cooling technology was recently installed in GlobalConnect’s data center in Copenhagen and will be rolled out […]

ZeroPoint Raises EUR 3.2M to Cut Data Center Energy Consumption

Gothenburg, Sweden, Feb. 7, 2023 — ZeroPoint Technologies AB announced today closed a EUR 3.2 million seed round in late January from climate tech investor Climentum Capital, Nordic VC Industrifonden, Chalmers Ventures, and present shareholders, to finance the company in 2023 and beyond. ZeroPoint Technologies provides a groundbreaking technology that can reduce the energy consumption […]

atNorth to Open 5MW Data Center Campus in Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland – February 7th, 2023 – Iceland-based atNorth, a pan-Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has reached an agreement to acquire an additional site in Finland that will be converted to a third data center for the business. The site, acquired from Tallberg Group is located in Sinimäentie, Espoo (greater Helsinki) and is a significant milestone […]