Energy

Bezos christens wind farm as US companies buy more clean power

Hyper-scale data center operators continue to invest in renewable capacity while the US EPA seems intent on rolling back clean energy policy.

Wind farm will be first in Europe to integrate batteries directly into turbines

Companies say future $1B data center in the state will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy.

Forced to build temporary solution until utility upgrades grid strained by rapid data center build-out in Dublin area

Two years after it did a pilot fuel-cell installation at one of its Silicon Valley data centers, Equinix is making a big bet on the technology, which uses a chemical process to convert natural gas to electricity...

Mark Bergen (Bloomberg) — On May 16, Makani released a YouTube video. A camera pans on a T-shaped airplane, with wings stretching 85 feet holding eight small turbines and a tether connecting it to a tall ground station. The plane swoops into...

Mark Bergen (Bloomberg) — Alphabet Inc.’s secretive X skunk works has another idea that could save the world. This one, code named Malta, involves vats of salt and antifreeze...

Sabey might be a lot smaller than eBay and Digital Realty Trust, but the Seattle-based company beat out both as the data center operator that achieved the highest level of energy savings last year as noted in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2017...

Legislation required that 40 percent of the state’s electricity come from clean energy sources by 2030.