Fuels

July, August and September this year saw renewables supplying more than 40% of Britain’s electricity for the first time in the third quarter. Furthermore, CO2 emissions fell below 150 g/kWh  (grams per kilowatt-hour) for the first time on record.

‘Data centres have got a huge problem with heat,’ explained Mark Bjornsgaard of start-up Deep Green earlier this year. ‘A lot of the money that it costs to run a data centre is taken up in getting rid of the heat and so what we’ve done is taken a very small bit of a data centre to where the heat is useful and required.’