Displaying items by tag: Carbon Footprint

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of China’s Alibaba Group has announced plans to expand its footprint by setting up data centres in South Korea and Thailand in 2022.

Klarna, in collaboration with Doconomy, launches a “CO2 insights” feature for its 90 million users, which allows them to track their “shopping carbon footprint in-app.” This launch, Klarna says, is one of the largest global carbon footprint awareness building efforts to date.

Data centre solutions provider NextDC has launched NEXTneutral, its new data centre carbon neutrality program.

Business software vendor SAP used its Sapphire Now Converge conference to make multiple announcements aimed at bringing some significant changes to business and industry .

Enterprise cloud computing vendor Nutanix has overhauled Adelaide Oval’s IT systems in a move aimed at helping to improve business operations and lower costs while reducing the organisation’s carbon footprint.

Self-proclaimed eco-conscious car-sharing platform Evee has launched in Australia offering electric vehicles (EVs) to rent, connecting “community-conscious car owners with eco-conscious drivers”.

Inmarsat research suggests "companies within transport and logistics are prioritising IoT to improve environmental sustainability and enhance their operational success".

GreenTouchâ„¢, the global consortium dedicated to dramatically improving the energy efficiency of information and communications technology (ICT) networks by a factor of 1,000, today will announce and demonstrate a new technology that will dramatically reduce energy consumption in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, as well as other applications. The breakthrough Bit-Interleaved Passive Optical Network (Bi-PON) technology is the second major milestone reached by the consortium. When deployed, it will enable a power reduction of 30 times over current technologies while improving performance and reducing cost.

According to research performed by Australian and Singapore researchers, the countries of Australia and the United States are among the top ten worst countries in the world with respect to their global environmental impact. Big shoes leave large areas environmentally vulnerable.

Schneider Electric partners with the University of Sheffield to deliver guaranteed reductions in energy consumption and CO2 emissions, plus enhanced operational efficiencies, which together release value for a major capital investment programme

Majority Believe G-Cloud Should Be Opt-In, Rather Than Mandatory