Sustainable IT Services News for Channel Partners and MSPs: 03 September 2025

Here is today's sustainable IT services news, research and analysis -- written for channel partners, MSPs, green IT service providers, climate accounting professionals, and the chief sustainability officers (CSOs) they serve.

A. Sustainable IT Partnerships, Strategic Alliances and Strategies

1. Partnership - Data Centers: ENGIE North America and Prometheus Hyperscale are partnering to co-locate data centers at select renewable and battery storage energy facilities along the Texas I-35 corridor, the two companies said.

2. Partnership - EV Charging Network: Blink Charging UK Ltd., will collaborate with Flowbird Smart City UK to provide exclusive EV charging solutions for National Health Service Property Services (NHSPS) throughout the United Kingdom, the organizations said.

3. Energy Storage Management: Stem Inc. has launched PowerTrack Energy Management System (EMS). The platform, designed for commercial- and utility-scale customers, combines onsite hardware with cloud software to offer real-time monitoring and management for solar, energy storage, and hybrid projects.

4. Partnership - Supply Chain Management Software: Shippeo's supply chain transportation software is now available for online purchase on the SAP Store.

5. Executive Leadership - Financial Services: Standard Chartered has named Roger Charles as head of sustainability initiatives coverage for its Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) team.

6. Tesla Strategy: Tesla has published its fourth “Master Plan,” and at a high level it is about how the company wants to lead the charge into planet-wide adoption of humanoid robots and sustainable energy, TechCrunch reported -- though the media outlet said the plan "reads like LLM-generated nonsense." Related: Tesla sustainability goals and milestones.

7. Layoffs: Land O’Lakes layoffs will impact 30 Truterra employees. Truterra specializes in carbon credits and sustainable farming practices. Land O'Lakes will fold the business unit into three other units. (Source: Minnesota Star Tribune). Related: List of all sustainability industry layoffs.

8. Lawsuit - Reddit vs Anthropic: Reddit's lawsuit against Anthropic over the AI developer’s scraping of user posts isn’t a federal copyright issue and should return to state court, Reddit asserted. (Source: Bloomberg). Related: List of all generative AI lawsuits and court rulings.

B. Sustainable IT Investments, Funding, Earnings and Business Launches

1. M&A - Software: One Click LCA, backed by PSG Equity and Infravia, has acquired PRé Sustainability -- developer of SimaPro software. The combined platform will "provide the tools, data, and services to deliver actionable carbon insights, enable compliance, and drive sustainable growth across all industries — at planetary scale," the companies said. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

2. M&A - Waste Management and Recycling: Valicor Environmental Services, backed by Pritzker Private Capital, has acquired ECO-FIRST, a provider of environmental and waste management services in West Virginia. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

3. Climate Tech Startup Funding: More than a dozen venture capital firms and private equity organizations -- including Khosla Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures (backed by Bill Gates) and DCVC -- have launched All Aboard Coalition, Bloomberg reported. The coalition is raising a $300 million fund to invest in climate tech startups, the report said.

4. Investment - Systems Integrator and Climate Tech: Electronics system integrator SINBON Electronics has invested in climate tech company Swobbee. Financial terms, financial figures and valuation information for the minority investment were not disclosed.

5. Financial Services - Strained Relationship: Dutch fund PFZW has reduced its BlackRock ties over clash on sustainability, Reuters reported.

C. Regional and Global Sustainability Policies, Regulations and News

1. European Union - CSRD Compliance Research: Nearly 75% of companies surveyed said that their plans to comply with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive remain unchanged despite pending revisions to simplify and reduce mandatory disclosures, a KPMG survey found, according to Bloomberg.

2. European Union - Compliance Statements: Almost half of FTSE 100 companies have made retrospective changes to their annual sustainability reports amid demands for more reliable metrics and evolving standards, Deloitte research found, according to EcoTextile News.

3. Vatican Initiative: Pope Leo will open a new Vatican-run ecological training center in the Italian countryside on September 5, in an initiative Catholic officials say is meant to encourage world leaders to address global climate change, Reuters reported.

D. Sustainability Conferences, Summits and Events

1. Platform Global 2025 (September 7-9, Antibes, France)
2. Workiva Amplify 2025 (September 8-10, Washington, D.C.)
3. RE+ 2025 Renewable Energy Conference (September 8-11, Las Vegas, Nevada)
4. Sustainability Live 2025 (September 9-10, London, United Kingdom)
5. International Conference of Sustainable Development (Sept. 10-11, Rome, Italy)
6. Complete Sustainability Conference Calendar

E. Previous Updates & Future News

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