Onsite Energy Plans for New Data Center Projects Reflect Industry’s Decarbonization Investment
Planned projects combining data centers and on-site energy reflect an ongoing trend of data center investment moving to meet global green imperatives for decarbonization and sustainability via use of clean energy technologies. Announcements this month for projects combining data centers and on-site energy, including one in Virginia with plans for a transition to small modular […]
Investing in the rising data center economy
Private investors have snapped up data centers in recent years, but plenty of other potential investment opportunities in the sector’s value chain may be going unnoticed. The explosion in demand for data centers has attracted the attention of investors of all types—growth capital, buyout, real estate, and, increasingly, infrastructure investors. In the US market alone, demand—measured […]
547 Energy launches new firm, CleanArc Data Centers
Clean energy investment firm 547 Energy is launching a new data center platform. The company this week announced the launch of CleanArc Data Centers. Led by Vantage Data Centers founder Jim Trout, the company offers data center turnkey program management, design and construction, and operational commissioning, bundled with power structuring. Read more
CleanArc Data Centers Launches, Offering Green Power Bundled with Hyperscale Capacity
A large clean energy investment fund is sponsoring a new development platform to target the hyperscale sector. CleanArc Data Centers launched Tuesday, and plans to build hyperscale data centers with clean energy contracts in place. Read more
Path to net-zero: Datacenter demands push Amazon, Big Tech toward renewables
A look ahead to the key strategic trends and opportunities expected to drive the Technology, Media and Telecommunications industry through 2023 and beyond. More than ever, the interconnectedness of the digital economy, both across the TMT landscape and within a vertical context, is becoming a key feature of TMT market evolution. Read more
Global Energy and Natural Resources Report 2022
Companies in the energy and natural resources sectors are making progress in their journeys to become more sustainable, but some are already hitting heavy traffic. Executives are under pressure from investors and customers to become greener faster, while also continuing to operate the businesses that supply the global economy with energy, materials, and food. Disruptions […]
How Google plans to use 100% carbon-free energy in its data centers by 2030
Google’s data centers around the world use about twice as much electricity as the city of San Francisco. In total, Google used 15.5 terawatt hours of electricity in 2020 and the majority of that goes to its data centers. (It hasn’t made 2021 figures available.) Read more