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

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

COP28 news involving Green IT services, SMB sustainability, Atos, Kyndryl, NEC, Sage, Schneider Electric, Linux Foundation, NZDPU climate data sharing platform & more.

Google Cloud & Boston Consulting Group (BCG) describe how artificial intelligence (AI) applications can potentially assist with climate action, though energy consumption will require close management.

CIOs & IT service providers need to reassess data infrastructures to leverage AI without triggering runaway data center energy costs, Pure Storage and Wakefield Research find.

Heat reuse can be a great indicator of a thermo-optimized data center. Regulations will play a critical role in data center design in upcoming regions, Forrester Research asserts.

EQT Infrastructure acquires battery storage and green hydrogen specialist Statera Energy. The opportunity: Europe's energy transition.

Schneider Electric names Charlie Hadlow to lead EnergySage – a comparison-shopping marketplace for rooftop solar, energy storage, heat pumps, and community solar.

NTT Data Business Solutions, the major IT consulting firm that deploys and manages SAP applications for customers, describes net-zero & green IT services strategy.

OpenUK and the United Nations seek contributors to develop open source solutions for carbon neutral data centers.

Goodwill, backed by Accenture, will teach solar & storage, electric vehicle (EV) charging, heat pump & energy efficiency job skills. Training partners include GRID Alternatives, ChargerHelp! & BlocPower.

Start Campus leverages Nautilus Data Technologies water cooling & Kyndryl IT monitoring services for sustainable hyperscale data center project in Europe.

Persefoni raises $50 million in Series C-1 funding. Climate management & carbon accounting software gains more generative AI features.

New & impending ESG regulations across the U.S. & Europe drive non-financial & financial reporting convergence, Workiva CEO Julie Iskow asserts.

GreenSquareDC, a data center technology startup focused on Green IT & sustainability solutions, joins NVIDIA Inception, an accelerator program designed to nurture startups.