A handful of energy and engineering corporations are starting to invest in startups that are developing novel energy options for data centres.

With data centres accounting for somewhere between 1% and 3% of the world’s total energy consumption, the pressure is on to find more energy efficient ways to run them — either by making them easier to cool or by making better use of the waste heat that they generate.

This is not an area that has seen a great deal of investment yet by corporations, but some interest is coming from…

Maija Palmer

Maija Palmer is editor of Global Venturing and puts together the weekly email newsletter (sign up here for free).