In brief | 22 August '24
Reuters:
Germany's state-owned Deutsche Bahn will no longer be able to financially support its loss-making freight operator DB Cargo as the result of an investigation by EU competition regulators, according to German government and supervisory board sources.
FT:
Coal power stations are being decommissioned in parts of the US and Europe, but may have attributes that a data centre campus would need. Industrial sites will typically have been designed for high power usage, for example, and might come with power transmission infrastructure and be located close to a water source.
Bloomberg:
Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are concealing their actual carbon footprints, buying credits tied to electricity use that inaccurately erase millions of tons of planet-warming emissions from their carbon accounts, a Bloomberg Green analysis finds.
Reuters:
Denmark will delay by at least three more years construction of a planned North Sea energy island to supply renewable power to three million European households, a government minister said on Wednesday, citing rising costs and high interest rates.
