This Week's Top 5 Stories in the Data Centre Industry
Earth Day 2025, on 22 April 2025, unites more than one billion people across the world to call for collective action to accelerate a global shift to renewable energy.
This year’s theme, Our Power, Our Planet, focuses on the ambitious goal of tripling clean electricity generation by 2030, placing the focus on solar, wind, hydroelectric, tidal and geothermal power as catalysts for climate stability.
Now a global event in its 55th year, Earth Day continues to rally communities, businesses and governments in a joint mission to mitigate climate change and push for a more sustainable future.
For the data centre industry, leaders recognise the immense responsibility they have to procure renewable energy and make their operations and supply chains more sustainable.
“This Earth Day, we’re reminded that innovation when used responsibly can be a powerful force for good,” says Sophie Graham, Chief Sustainability Officer at IFS.
“We see industrial AI playing a vital role in helping high-impact, yet hard-to-abate, sectors like manufacturing and utilities become more sustainable.”
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reportedly paused some of its data centre leases, according to Wells Fargo. Specifically, the company has pulled back from its commitments for some colocation facilities, according to analysts.
This is a similar move to Microsoft, with it being reported that the company was stepping back from globally developing data centres.
“We continue to see strong demand for both generative AI (Gen AI) and foundational workloads on AWS. We have almost two decades of experience delivering data centre capacity to meet customer demands, when and where they need it,” Kevin Miller, VP, Global Data Centers at AWS, shared via LinkedIn.
“This is routine capacity management, and there haven’t been any recent fundamental changes in our expansion plans. Fortunately for our customers, they’re able to focus on their business and leave these details to us.”
Microsoft has achieved a 90.9% reuse and recycling rate for servers and components in 2024, exceeding its target of 90% a full year ahead of schedule.
The achievement forms part of the company's broader sustainability strategy, which includes becoming zero-waste by 2030. As part of this, it has implemented a Circular Center strategy focused on processing decommissioned data centre hardware to maximise reuse and recover components.
Since launching its first facility in Amsterdam in 2020, Microsoft has expanded to sites across the US, Ireland and Singapore, with new centres planned for Cardiff, Wales, as well as New South Wales, Australia and San Antonio, Texas.
Vertiv Partners with Nvidia & iGenius for Chip Deployment
Vertiv is partnering with global chipmaker Nvidia and AI pioneer iGenius to deploy Colosseum, one of the world’s largest Nvidia DGX AI supercomputers.
Harnessing Nvidia Grace Blackwell superchips, Colosseum is set to deploy in Italy in 2025 and hopes to redefine the digital landscape through a first-of-its-kind sovereign AI data centre for regulated workloads.
The supercomputer is expected to embody a fusion of computational power, energy efficiency and data sovereignty – all while balancing necessary data security requirements.
Having announced a thirty megawatt (30MW) capacity expansion in the Pacific Northwest, Sabey Data Centers is introducing new capacity that is coming online at two of its campuses in Washington state.
With availability expected to begin in Q4 2025, the expansion is set to strengthen the company’s ability to meet increasing demand for infrastructure that is sustainable and scalable.
“These two expansions reflect our continued investment in delivering sustainable, reliable, and scalable digital infrastructure across key U.S. markets,” says Tim Mirick, President of Sabey Data Centers.
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