Conventional data centre energy management relies on metering at a server or rack level. It doesn’t matter whether it is on a server or cable, or that it is now digital and can communicate, the intrinsic technology is doing the same function as in in...

To impress Empress Catherine II(The Great), during her 1787 Crimea tour, Prince Potemkin erected a number of fake villages along the Dnieper river. Overnight, they were dismantled and re-erected further down the river to give an image of prosperity. In time, any such deceptive stratagem came...

18/5/2018 Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) considered by many of his contemporaries and subsequent scientists and philosophers such as Darwin, Goethe and Thoreau as the scientist who made the most original contributions to the fields of Botany, Biology, Geology and Meteorology in the context of their inter-relationship...

11/5/2018 None! But the Amazonian rainforest does this naturally. Covering an area 25 times the size of the U.K, it absorbs 600 Million tonnes of CO2 per year, sufficient to offset the 330 million tonnes of CO2e generated by the  data centre industry. Fortunately, the rainforests...