07 December 2018 Politiken, the biggest daily newspaper in Denmark, published an article in Danish titled: “Hvis Netflix var et køleskab, skulle det have energimærke D” (English translation: If Netflix was a refrigerator, it should have energy-efficient D), on 5th December 2018. The article referenced Dr Rabih Bashroush’s (EC Lab Director) work on the energy consumption […]
24 October 2018 Dr Bashroush (EC Lab Director) will be moderating an expert panel titled, “The Roadmap to a 100% Green Data Centre: Is it achievable?”, at Data Centre World (DCW) Frankfurt which will take place at Messe Frankfurt, on 7th November 2018 at 12:10pm. The panel will feature other data centre experts such as Paolo […]
22 October 2018 Datacentre Dynamics (DCD) London is the industry’s most renowned full-stack digital infrastructure conference dedicated to the European data centre and cloud infrastructure community. The 2018 event explores the full on-premise and IT service ecosystem, from enterprise to hyperscale, and colocation to edge. The conference is for senior executives and technical teams responsible […]
15 October 2018 BBC Reality Check team published an article titled: “Climate change: Is your Netflix habit bad for the environment?”, on 12th October 2018. The team interviewed Dr Rabih Bashroush (EC Lab Director) in relation to the energy consumption of streaming media and the overall trends in data centre energy consumption. To read the full […]
26 September 2018 Computer Weekly interviews the director of EC Lab, Dr Rabih Bashroush, about the new Ecodesign legislation on servers and online storage devices and the controversy surrounding idle power requirements. Dr Bashroush explained in the interview the potential impact from the legislation on the European data centres market. To read the full article, […]
21 September 2018 IP EXPO Europe is Europe’s number ONE IT event for those looking to find out how the latest IT innovations can drive their business forward. Dr Haider (EC Lab Research Fellow) will give a talk on “The energy consumption of digital infrastructures”. The talk will be within the Blockchain Theatre, on 3rd October […]
20 September 2018 The inaugural Open Compute Project (OCP) Regional Summit will be taking place at RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Regional Summit brings together key decision makers, executives, engineers, developers and suppliers in developing regions where OCP is experiencing significant demand and adoption. Dr Bashroush (EC Lab Director) will be presenting […]
19 September 2018 European member states have voted on a key piece of policy implementation to make Europe’s IT infrastructure more energy efficient for future generations, with EC Lab Director, Dr Rabih Bashroush, playing a key role. On 17 September European policymakers meeting in Brussels voted to implement regulation (EU) No 617/2013 under Directive 2009/125/EC, […]
14 September 2018 EC Lab’s Director, Dr Rabih Bashroush, was invited as a speaker to the roundtable discussion titled, “Data Centres and Climate Change – how can we develop and encourage best practice?”, and chaired by MPs Antoinette Sandbach (Conservative) and Daniel Zeichner (Labour), on 12th September 2018. The roundtable discussed how to tackle some […]
09 July 2018 EC Lab’s scientific research done by Dr Bashroush under the EU Commission funded EURECA project on hardware refresh rates was referenced by the Amsterdam Economic Board, Netherlands, on June 2018. In the report, EURECA research on server refresh rates was used as basis for a policy guidance document. The published report can […]