Currently, the vast majority of data centres blow air across their electronics to cool them. In doing so, very significant amounts of electricity, water, and space are consumed. Despite the industry’s efforts to optimise efficiency, data centres contribute around 1% of total global energy consumption – and growing – coupled with very significant water consumption.
The power infrastructure in the UK is in a major transitional phase and with the PM stating that all of the UK’s electricity is going to come from clean energy sources by 2035; as COP26 progresses we expect more news on the clean power era to come.
This study explores the service received by a customer with a water treatment facility and significant raw water ingress. They needed to enhance visibility, enable analysis and create potential preventive alerts for their facility.
Last Thursday, we were proud to host Becoming Greener: The Corporate Sustainability Summit as part of the 2021 Leeds Digital Festival. Individual behaviour changes will only get us so far on the road to a more sustainable planet. What we really need is for companies and organisations to get fully behind the green movement to ensure their practices have as little negative environmental impact as possible.
Whilst organisations are at terms with energy price increases through the colder months of the year, they may not be quite prepared for what’s now upon the UK.
We love anything relating to energy. We love it even more when it’s technical. And we love it, even more, when it’s being used for the greater good: to reduce the effects of climate change.
In light of the UN’s recent Climate Change Report 2021, it’s never been more black-and-white: climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying. We’ve all got a part to play in limiting climate change; it’s a time-sensitive case of now or never.
Effectively speaking directly to the logistics and supply chain sectors, the 1987 Brundtland Report defines sustainable development as ‘producing and distributing goods in a sustainable way, taking account of environmental, financial, and social factors’.
The industry most notorious for issues revolving around sustainability is fashion.
You’ve heard about it plenty recently, the climate crisis is reaching “code-red” and individual consumer choices are no longer enough to change things; it’s up to governments and businesses to make substantial improvements to policies…
As the pandemic seems to find stability, an old antagonist beckons. While it had been briefly forgotten, the global climate crisis is, rightfully, back in the public eye. Only this time, the situation is far more dire than ever before, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
‘Climigration’ is a phrase that has been introduced to describe those that have had to relocate because of climate change. The environmental consequences of climate change are increasingly threatening communities all over the world. It’s not hard to find news stories around towns and cities that have been devastated by fires, floods and rising sea levels. Environmental and government bodies have growing concerns over this type of displacement and what can be done to tackle it.
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