Two new renewable energy agreements involving Malaysia are a reminder of the growing power demands of data centres and of date centre owners’ need to find cleaner, cheaper and more demand-responsive ways to meet them.
Nigerian last-mile connectivity and tower operator Hotspot has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a consortium led by solar-power company Clear Blue Technologies to deploy 312 solar powered mobile sites across Nigeria.
Vi Business, the enterprise arm of India’s Vodafone Idea, said on Wednesday it plans to deploy 12 million smart meters nationwide within the next three years in a bid to help transform India’s energy infrastructure.
Two Malaysian companies, clean energy solutions provider Gentari, the renewable energy arm of Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas, and construction and engineering company Gamuda, through its energy arm Gamuda Energy, have entered into a data centre…