Green IT

Will Apple’s Data Centre Really Increase Ireland’s Electricity Consumption By 8 Percent?

Documents sent to Galway County Council estimate Apple's Ireland data centre would dramatically increase Ireland's electricity consumption, but are the…

9 years ago

Facebook Is Doubling The Size Of Its Irish Data Centre

Facebook's County Meath data centre gets extension approval as work starts on 621,000 sq ft site

9 years ago

Apple Now Uses 93 Percent Renewable Energy

Apple gives update on its drive towards using 100 percent renewables and shows off a robot called Liam that can…

9 years ago

Dyson Invests £1bn In Battery Development

Strong sales of cordless vacuums leads Dyson to pledge significant support for technology industry's battle to create better and longer…

9 years ago

Seagate Will Test Optical Interconnect Technologies For The World’s Hungriest Data Centres

Seagate has partnered with Japanese scientists PETRA to test optical interconnect solutions for exascale data centres looking to boost bandwidth…

9 years ago

Sea-Going Drones To Patrol Vast Marine Reserve

Vast Pitcairn Islands marine reserve is now being monitored by solar-powered Wave Glider drones

9 years ago

Google Joins Unicef’s Fight Against Zika Virus

Google partners UNICEF in the global fight against the Zika virus, with mapping data and more

9 years ago

Massachusetts Researchers Launch Solar-Power Data Centre

15 megawatt 'micro' data centre opened by US green computing scientists to research renewable future

9 years ago

MWC 2016: Mobile Industry Helps Developing World And Refugees With Tech

UK government teams up with GSMA to help improve access to energy and clean water, while Vodafone Foundation pledges support…

9 years ago

Vodafone: Flexible Working Is Boosting Productivity And Profits

Flexible working has been adopted by three quarters or organisations surveyed in ten countries, but Vodafone admits barriers remain

9 years ago

Apple, Amazon And Google Data Centres Use Far More Coal Than Everyone Thinks

Web giants are underestimating their data centre coal usage by 30 percent because of “obsolete” data tools

9 years ago

This Rechargable Battery Could Enable Homes To Be Taken Off Power Grid

Eli-Home can help make better use of solar power cells and provide a backup source in the event of outages

9 years ago

Facebook Confirms €200m ‘Green’ Irish Data Centre

Facebook is to go ahead with its first Irish data centre, situated in Clonee, County Meath

9 years ago

SIGFOX Launches IoT Network In Antarctica For Polar Researchers

The safety of scientists researching climate change will be boosted by GPS and SIGFOX IoT

9 years ago

Lexmark Wants To Make Throwing Away Ink Cartridges Illegal

Printer and cartridge vendor Lexmark pushes EU to implement compulsory recycling schemes

9 years ago

Amazon Web Services Indiana Wind Farm Goes Live

Fowler Ridge adds to AWS' 40 percent renewable energy goal by the end of 2016

9 years ago

Yandex Data Centres To Supply Hot Water To Finnish City

The city of Mäntsälä looks to reduce C02 emissions by up to 40 percent by heating its water with Russian…

9 years ago

Vodafone Wins £75m Deal To Connect Scottish Power To Smart Grid

Vodafone will help Scottish Power monitor faults and direct investment while implementing smart grid technologies

9 years ago

HP Printer Cartridges ‘Washing Up Across UK, Europe’

The debris is thought to originate from an Atlantic spill more than a year ago

9 years ago

EE Recalls All Power Bars Amid Overheating Risk

EE says all of its free power bars should be handed into a retail store after an issue with a…

9 years ago

Ford To Invest Another £3bn In Electric Cars

Ford said it plans to introduce 13 more electric cars over the next five years and expand battery research

9 years ago

IBM Expands Green Horizons Effort To Fight Pollution Globally

Targeting India and Africa, IBM announced an expansion of its Green Horizons initiative to address environmental and pollution challenges

9 years ago

Google Makes Massive Renewable Energy Purchase In US, Sweden And Chile

Google says its on track to make 2025 renewable energy targets with 842 MW mega-purchase

9 years ago

How Are UK Data Centres Dealing With Climate Change Regulations?

In the week of the COP21 Climate Summit, UK data centre providers are under increasing pressure to regulate their energy…

9 years ago

Cellular Connectivity Provides Key Solution To Efficient UK Water Management

Olivier Pauzet from Sierra Wireless discusses how the new generation of smart water meters can bring benefits to all

9 years ago

Amazon, Alibaba and Microsoft Founders Ally With Zuckerberg’s Climate Change Initiative

Zuckerberg-backed Breakthrough Energy Coalition will advocate zero-carbon technology to plug climate change gaps left by governments

9 years ago

Amazon Wind Services: AWS Plans New US Wind Farm

AWS unveils a central US wind farm to meet 2016 cloud energy targets

9 years ago

Equinix Signs Two Data Centre Renewable Energy Deals

Equinix takes next step towards committing to use 100 percent renewable energy in North America by the end of 2016

9 years ago

Li-Fi Could Connect And Power SmartWatches And IoT

Researchers want to commercialise integrated solar panel technology that uses visible spectrum to power devices and transmit data

9 years ago

Apple Agrees Green Solar Initiatives In China

iPhone maker wants to clean up its supply chain and promises big solar energy projects for renewables push

9 years ago