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New Zealand’s chance to lead in green datacentres

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New Zealand stands poised to lead in sustainable data centres, harnessing 85% renewable energy to power AI growth worth NZD $3.4b annually by 2035.
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Meridian Energy upgrades finance with unified Oracle Fusion Cloud

Tue, 9th Sep 2025
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Meridian Energy modernises finance ops with DXC’s unified Oracle Fusion Cloud, enhancing efficiency and supporting New Zealand’s renewable energy goals.
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New Zealand leads in energy transition but faces skills gap

Thu, 24th Jul 2025
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New Zealand leads Asia-Pacific in energy transition investment, with 77% of firms committing over 10% of capital to renewables, yet faces a skills shortage.
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maincubes signs 10-year solar power agreement, bolstering sustainability

Tue, 12th Mar 2024
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maincubes takes a major step towards sustainability with a 10-year solar power purchase agreement, expected to supply its FRA03 data centre with up to 34 megawatts peak power.
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Vultr expands eco-friendly cloud infrastructure with NVIDIA GPUs

Mon, 11th Mar 2024
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Vultr, the world's largest private cloud platform, boosts its commitment to sustainable computing with an eco-friendly expansion of cloud infrastructure, deploying NVIDIA GPUs at Sabey's green run Data Centres.
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Etix Everywhere Borealis data centre goes 100% green

Tue, 19th Feb 2019
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The company has been busy in the past months having signed several contracts with the major Icelandic power providers.
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Green Mountain expands hydro-powered Norway data centre

Fri, 23rd Nov 2018
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Despite its cool climate – or rather because of it – the Nordics are hot real estate for data centres at the moment.
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Datacloud Nordic 2017 - Norway's state sec says they're ready for the future

Mon, 30th Oct 2017
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Norway's state sec opened the event, reporting the govt knows if it provides good framework conditions, data centres will do great things for society.