Month: January 2025

Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling

Stuart Mitchell

This summer, Microsoft released their Datacenter Community Pledge, detailing their commitment to the local economies and communities in which we operate our datacenters. Protecting local watersheds is an important part of this pledge—especially in areas where water stress is growing.   Beginning in August 2024, Microsoft launched a new datacenter design that optimizes AI workloads and consumes zero water for cooling. By adopting chip-level cooling solutions, we can deliver precise temperature control without water evaporation. While water is still used for administrative purposes like restrooms and kitchens, this design will avoid…

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UK’s energy professionals welcome Government’s early actions but fear “delivery gap” ahead

Stuart Mitchell

New independent research into the views of the UK’s energy professional community has been published recently, raising concerns that progress towards decarbonisation commitments will become significantly more challenging. The Energy Barometer is the Energy Institute’s annual state-of-the-nation member survey designed to inform the public debate about energy and provide an expert sense check on government policy. This year’s report, UK Power Shift, is a retrospective look at the decade since the survey started and, looking forward, the first comprehensive assessment by those working across all areas of energy since power…

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UK sees surge in the demand for green skills despite overall job market decline – PwC Green Jobs Barometer

Stuart Mitchell

The latest PwC Green Jobs Barometer reveals a surge in green job adverts across the UK, reflecting a growing demand for green skills despite a 22.5% contraction in the overall job market. Now in its fourth year, the Barometer tracks the movement in green jobs creation, job loss, carbon intensity of employment, and worker sentiment across regions and sectors. It finds that the share of green job adverts as a proportion of total job adverts increased to 3.3% in 2024 – up from 2.3% in 2023 – adding nearly 23,000…

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Tate & Lyle and BioHarvest announce partnership to drive the future of   ingredients through botanical synthesis technology

Stuart Mitchell

Tate & Lyle PLC, a world leader in ingredient solutions for healthier and tastier food and beverages, and BioHarvest Sciences (BioHarvest), leaders in botanical synthesis, announce a pioneering new partnership to develop the next-generation of proprietary plant-based molecules to address increasing consumer desire for affordable, nutritious and more sustainable plant-derived food and beverage ingredients.  BioHarvest’s proven Botanical Synthesis platform produces non-GMO plant-derived ingredients in a more sustainable and economically viable way, helping to scale up the production of highly beneficial botanical ingredients. This proprietary process delivers patentable molecules by growing…

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Contracts signed for UK’s first carbon capture projects in Teesside

Stuart Mitchell

Thousands of new, skilled jobs will be supported in the North East of England as contracts for the first carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) projects in the UK are signed recently.   The East Coast Cluster in Teesside – a project that will capture and store carbon emissions from industries in the region – is now set to start construction in mid-2025, marking the latest milestone in the government’s mission to reignite its industrial heartlands, tackle the climate crisis and turbocharge growth for decades to come.   This investment decision comes…

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