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Microsoft data center uses hydrogen fuel cell backup power from Caterpillar

Hydrogen Fuel News

recently announced the successful results of a collaboration with both Microsoft and Ballard Power Systems to show how hydrogen fuel cell technology can be used on a large scale to provide data center backup power. The demonstration was successful in showing how this power supply is sustainable and reliable.

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Microsoft data center to host hydrogen demonstration project

Renewable Energy World

A Microsoft data center in Washington State will host a hydrogen fuel cell demonstration project. The project will test the reliability of a power system incorporating large-format hydrogen fuel cells to produce reliable and sustainable backup power.

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Microsoft eyes hydrogen 'opportunity' after successful data centre pilot

Business Green

Tech giant pilots hydrogen fuel cells as backup power source for Utah data centres, as it also joins growing number of firms in global Hydrogen Council. We very much see ourselves as a catalyst in this whole hydrogen economy.".

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The case for raising up women in climate tech

GreenBiz

It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? Carbon removal. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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How to build a net zero power system: Seven top takeaways from the CCC's green grid blueprint

Business Green

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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How Microsoft Plans To Eliminate All The Carbon It Ever Emitted

R-Squared Energy

to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. He added that energy demand is expected to continue growing, and thus there is a growing need to address the associated carbon emissions. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to

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Global Briefing: China plans $900bn green grid upgrade programme

Business Green

The Chinese government has provided the first evidence that its recent unveiling of a net zero emissions target will trigger a new wave of low carbon infrastructure deployment. State media reported this week that the government is to invest close to $900bn over the next five years in upgrading and expanding the country's power grids.