Energy Efficiency

• Research firm IDC predicts that datacentre electricity consumption worldwide will more than double between 2023 and 2028, reaching 857 terawatt hours.
• Increasingly power-hungry AI workloads are a major factor
• Rising electricity prices and growing carbon emissions add an urgency for d

The Broadband Forum is working on an initiative aimed at delivering "significant power savings" for fibre service providers when customers access the internet.

EkkoSense, a global leader in the provision of AI-powered data centre optimisation software, has worked with Virgin Media O2 to help the company make data centre cooling energy savings worth in exces

• A new independent report by FarrPoint, commissioned using data from four EE mast deployments, shows 4G mobile connectivity can generate more than £6 million for a rural community.
• From farming and fishi

BT Group has implemented energy-saving ‘cell sleep’ technology across its EE mobile sites nationwide, following successful trials in each of the UK’s home nations.

NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced that it launched Japan's first demonstration experiment*1 of a self-powered hydropower cellular base station on May 30.

• Ericsson and Telcaria collaborate to improve the energy efficiency of 5G networks as part of the 6G DAWN research project
• The partnership focuses on optimizing private 5G networks for lower energy usage without compromising on performance

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