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Measuring greenhouse gas emissions in data centers: the environmental impact of cloud computing
Dissecting how to measure greenhouse gas emissions from operating data centers and cloud services.
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3 days ago2 min read


An eco-friendly data center?
Can a data center be eco-friendly? We visited Marilyn, a data center located in Champs-sur-Marne.
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6 days ago1 min read


How a police data centre is heating London’s homes
Words byElizabeth LittleMarch 2, 2026 A west London project will use waste heat from a data centre to supply low-carbon heating to 4,000 homes and a new commercial district With millennia of history, hundreds of miles of underground rail and thousands of miles of sewers and pipelines, making large-scale sustainable infrastructural changes in central London is incredibly complex. A redevelopment project in west London is nevertheless set to use waste heat from a data centre in
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Jun 41 min read


Power-hungry data centres are warming homes in the Nordics
LARS PAULSSON, KARI LUNDGREN & KATI POHJANPALO Thursday, June 5th, 2025 Fortum is building heat recovery facility on the site of an under-construction Microsoft data centre in Kirkkonummi, Finland By pairing computer processing facilities with district heating systems, Nordic countries are trying to limit their environmental downsides WHEN Finnish engineer Ari Kurvi takes a hot shower or turns up the thermostat in his apartment, he’s tapping into waste heat generated by a 75-
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Jun 42 min read


The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for artificial intelligence
The carbon and water footprints of data centers
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Jun 12 min read


Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom
Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom
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Jun 12 min read


'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre
Michelle Fleury & Nathalie JimenezNorth America business correspondent & Business reporter, Georgia When Beverly Morris retired in 2016, she thought she had found her dream home - a peaceful stretch of rural Georgia, surrounded by trees and quiet. Today, it's anything but. Just 400 yards (366m) from her front porch in Mansfield, Georgia, sits a large, windowless building filled with servers, cables, and blinking lights. It's a data centre - one of many popping up across small
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Jun 11 min read
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