Category: Schneider Electric

Jan 24 2025

Power grid constraints threaten Dutch digital innovation ambitions

4 minutes of reading / AI, digital transformation, Schneider Electric, social media, Tech / By Comkex

Recent research from Schneider Electric warns that datacentre electricity demand could more than double between now and 2026, reaching over 1,000 terawatt-hours. This surge in power demand comes at a particularly challenging time, as the last Dutch provinces with available grid capacity – South Holland and North Holland – have now declared they have no…

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Sep 8 2023

Schneider Electric: Business leaders deprioritise green goals due to economic pressure

3 minutes of reading / Schneider Electric, Tech / By Comkex

Datacentre leaders from across the UK and Ireland are scaling back and delaying their investments in net-zero initiatives to focus their attention on dealing with, what they term, more immediate business challenges. That’s according to Schneider Electric’s Missing the target report, which sought to highlight the long-standing impact the 2021 energy price and supply crisis…

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Sep 5 2023

Tackling Scope 3 emissions in materials to help meet datacentre climate goals

8 minutes of reading / AI, Schneider Electric, Tech / By Comkex

While greenwashing continues to confuse and even block the best intended emissions reduction plans, a 495MW €3.5bn (£3bn) datacentre project in Portugal is making progress on Scope 3 accounting. The Sines 4.0 datacentre campus, which is the work of sustainable server farm developer Start Campus, is predicted to become one of the largest hyperscale sites…

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