Technology

ESG software, Palladium & Booz Allen veteran Christina Shim named IBM chief sustainability officer (CSO) ahead of IBM Think 2024 conference.

Prime Data Centers, led by CEO Nicholas Laag, embarks on enhanced sustainability strategy. Hires ESG VP Sarah Martinez. Data center companies seek energy efficient solutions for generative AI applications.

Roughly 2,000 partners join Lenovo 360 Circle sustainability community. New LISSA software gives Lenovo customers "actionable sustainability insights."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Katherine Boyle, and multiple VCs fund Exowatt, a renewable energy startup that wants to offer cost-effective power for generative AI applications and data centers.

Keysource, an MSP (managed IT service provider) that offers sustainable data center solutions & strategic advisory services, acquires 2bm for data center design & build expertise.

Uptime Institute Sustainability Assessments may give MSPs & channel partners visibility into third-party data centers & public cloud services.

Google Cloud Next 2024 conference: In addition to AI (artificial intelligence), plenty of sustainability cloud & data center chatter will emerge.

Private investment & asset management firm Ardian acquires green data center company Verne from Digital 9 Infrastructure. Here's what's next.

Verrus, backed by Google parent Alphabet, launches to solve generative AI, data center & cloud energy consumption challenges.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) acquires nuclear powered, carbon-free data center campus from Talen Energy for $650 million.

Goldman Sachs invests in Divcon Controls -- a systems integrator that helps data centers to monitor, manage, optimize and reduce their energy consumption.

Founder Paul Baum explains how Nextra Tech plans to acquire sustainable IT solutions providers, IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) companies, and e-waste reduction experts.

Starwood Capital Group acquires a 50% stake in Echelon Data Centres, a sustainability-focused data center infrastructure provider in Ireland & the United Kingdom.

Compliance & ESG software company EQS Group, now owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, seeks potential tuck-in acquisitions.

Fairphone hires telecommunications veteran Reinier Hendriks as CEO. Here's what sustainable smartphone partners & customers need to know about Fairphone & Hendriks.