Energy

Hartree will build renewable energy plants for customers, claiming hotel chains and data centers are among clients already signed up for the service.

Discussions about the accelerating climate crisis dropped for every industry in the S&P 500.

Renewable energy for data centers is harder in the US than in Europe. Here’s how one French ad tech firm solved the puzzle.

The fund will bet on a broad range of industries, from transportation and manufacturing to energy generation and agriculture.

This comes as many of the businesses that need big batteries, such as developers of solar plants and wind farms, have been building up their own capacity to install them.

In the past couple of years, more than 40 tech companies have set targets for limiting emissions, but Microsoft’s plans to be carbon negative by 2030 and wipe out historical emissions are the most aggressive.

The company is planning a fleetwide rollout of a new platform that runs non-urgent workloads when the grid is most carbon-free.

What if instead of always being utility customers, data centers were also energy suppliers, helping operators balance supply and demand on the grid?