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Sip or guzzle? Here's how Google's data centers use water

GreenBiz

With a pledge to restore 120 percent of the “water it consumes” by 2030, Google is rethinking the approaches used to cool its massive data centers.

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Geothermal to provide heating and cooling in Ferney-Voltaire, France

ThinkGeoEnergy

Work has started on a geothermal district heating and cooling network in Ferney-Voltaire in Ain, France, near the Geneva Airport. The project is targeting commissioning by 2030. The local public company Terre d’innovation has invested EUR 30 million into the project. It will also generate 4,500 jobs.

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The COP28 pledge to triple up by 2030 and implications for geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

One of the biggest stories and most widely supported initiatives coming out of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (CO28) in Dubai, UAE is the pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. This is the only way that ambition can become reality.

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Cooling a hidden threat for climate change and sustainable goals, says Oxford study

Envirotec Magazine

Past research suggests that growing international demand for cooling has the potential to drive one of the most substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions in recent history. A new study, led by the University of Oxford and published on 19 October in Nature Sustainability , sets out a framework for delivering sustainable cooling.

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Extreme heat emergency: More than a billion people facing heat risks without improved access to cooling

Business Green

New report suggests investment in suppotrt of the UN Sustainable Development Goals could protect 450 million people by 2030. Rolling out cooling technologies to the 1.2 The report assesses 76 countries with cooling access challenges and found that, globally, 1.2 We must all commit to urgent action.".

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Interview – Harnessing the potential of geothermal to scale up by 2030

ThinkGeoEnergy

One of the new goals set to at the COP28 is to triple the global renewables capacity by 2030. Depending on where you are, somewhere between 30% to 70% of primary energy is spent on heating and cooling. These plants are in an arid region, with little access to water for power plant cooling.

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$4 trillion needed by 2030 for net zero goals – World Energy Outlook

Smart Energy International

The energy landscape is in a period of major turmoil and, while there is positive evidence of clean energy progress, for our net zero and climate targets to be reached, policy action and doubling of global investment to $4 trillion by 2030 will be needed. Demand for cooling needs to be a focus for policy makers, as it makes the second?largest

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