PORTLAND, Oregon — Dec. 4, 2025 — ZincFive, the a nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based company, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $30 million Series F funding round. With this funding, the company has raised $254 million since its founding in 2016 and now intends to scale its commercial footprint and manufacturing capacity to meet accelerating […]
ZincFive Profile: The Power of Batteries for Data Centers — Nickel-Zinc Batteries for Greener Data Centers
April 15, 2025 by
At the recent DCD NYC event, we had the opportunity to speak with Steve Jennings, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at ZincFive, about the role of nickel-zinc (NiZn) batteries in supporting green data centers in then North America and EMEA markets. As data centers increasingly adopt sustainable solutions, such as renewable energy, NiZn […]
Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
January 31, 2025 by
IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI […]
Schneider Electric Releases Research on AI’s Energy Consumption Impact
December 5, 2024 by
Rueil-Malmaison (France), December 05, 2024 – Energy management and automation company Schneider Electric today released two reports from its Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) regarding AI’s impact on sustainability, particularly energy use. The first research, Artificial Intelligence and Electricity: A System Dynamics Approach, examines four possible scenarios for AI’s electricity consumption over the next decade. Considering the […]
Data-Driven Sustainability: Beyond Numbers, Towards Action
May 23, 2024 by
In this contributed article, Supratik Shankar, Co-founder of Dview Technologies, explores how data analytics and insights can be leveraged to achieve sustainability goals, the challenges and opportunities in implementing data-driven sustainability initiatives, and the future trends that will shape this field.
atNorth Shortlisted for 14th Annual Energy Awards
September 7, 2023 by
Reykjavík, Iceland – September 6th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced that its Sweden data center is on the shortlist for the ‘Physical Technology of the Year – Heating and Cooling’ category at the 2023 Energy Awards. atNorth’s SWE01 data center launched in 2022 and is specifically designed […]
Lenovo is a Supply Chain Powerhouse with Asset Recovery Services being a Key Cornerstone
July 20, 2023 by
[Sponsored Guest Article] The lifecycle of IT gear, HPC or otherwise, is generally thought to start the day it is powered up to the day it is powered down for the last time and pulled out of the rack. However, in the immortal words of Prince: there’s something else- the afterlife. Actually, there’s a beforelife too. Lenovo’s global presence in both supply chain and asset recovery maximizes customer value from well before it ships, to well after it’s removed from the rack. Start at the beginning or even before that. The management and execution of a global supply chain is one of Lenovo’s core strengths, and has been for years. Supply chains in the tech industry are inherently complex, comprised of intricate webs of over 2000 suppliers. For Lenovo, there is the added layer of stringent security measures for each supplier. All that must happen before the first transistor hits the factory door.
Hitachi Vantara’s State of Data Infrastructure Sustainability Report
June 17, 2023 by
U.S. businesses have made sustainability a priority, with nearly four in five companies saying that they have developed plans for achieving carbon neutrality (78%) and net zero carbon emissions (79%), according to the State of Data Infrastructure Sustainability, a new report from our friends over at Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501). However, despite this and the fact that 85% of respondents claim to be “on plan” or “ahead of plan” when it comes to their carbon reduction goals, the survey revealed that actual progress may not be as robust as many businesses believe.
HPE Announces GreenLake Sustainability Dashboard for Carbon Footprint Reduction
June 5, 2023 by
HOUSTON – June 5, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the preview of a sustainability dashboard on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and a portfolio of sustainability services. The offerings, which span technology, services, financing and asset upcycling programs, are designed to help organizations reduce the carbon footprint associated with their IT […]
With Sustainability Analytics, Big Data Can Save the World
November 22, 2022 by
In this contributed article, Cashion “Cash” East, Director of Analytics for Higg, discusses how sustainability analytics requires a lot of data from many different sources. Some of that data already exists and is standardized, while other data is coming from new sources with no established standards. In order for companies to collect and organize ESG data in a meaningful and efficient way, the article recommends that companies start doing five things as they begin building out their sustainability insights platform.
