Both companies cited problems with “cooling systems” for causing the outages. Temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the UK on Tuesday.

Small data centers in dense urban areas running close to full capacity are most likely to need emergency hosing during a hot spell. Hyperscale data centers run by technology giants often use vast amounts of water.

The move to the cloud is not necessarily a carbon-free transition, which means businesses need to be folding cloud-based emissions into their overall ESG strategy.

DeepMind has let its AI system manage the temperature controls inside Google data centers, shaving huge chunks off the company’s electricity bill. Phaidra is hoping to bring that technology to power plants and other industrial giants.

Yes, data centers use a lot of water. But Utah's Novva data center shows it doesn’t have to be that way.

If federal agencies lose some authority to enforce environmental protection measures, will corporate reporting on sustainability fall by the wayside?

Green energy is tops of UK lawmakers bid to tackle climate change, yet includes fossil fuels like coal as a cheaper alternative to soaring energy prices.