This Week in Sustainability: Data Centres & Biodiversity
CoreWeave and Conapto have agreed to co-locate two new data centre campuses in Stockholm.
The arrangement provides AI cloud capacity for European customers and operates on renewable energy sources.
The Stockholm 4 South facility is already operational. CoreWeave Cloud offers compute, networking, storage and software orchestration designed for AI workloads.
Mars has announced a US$1m grant to support communities impacted by the earthquakes that have struck northern Venezuela.
The earthquakes on 24 June 2026 caused widespread damage across the country, especially in its capital, Caracas and the northern state of La Guaira.
In La Guaira, 80% of buildings collapsed as a result of the earthquake.
More than 4,500 people have been killed, 16,700 injured, and tens of thousands remain missing across the affected areas.
Through its Impact Fund, Mars aims to provide meals to people affected by the disaster.
The well-documented surge in data centre demand is putting pressure on cloud providers as they look to scale operations without increasing their environmental footprint.
Business leaders are having to walk a tightrope between progress on sustainability and meeting customer needs.
The demand for Google data services in 2025 led to a 37% increase in annual electricity load, the company revealed in its latest environmental report.
A core sustainability issue facing the sector is that infrastructure growth is outpacing electricity grid expansion.
According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), monitored global wildlife populations have declined by an average of 73% since 1970, with around one million plant and animal species now facing extinction due to habitat loss, climate change, overexploitation and pollution.
Monitoring wildlife in remote and inaccessible regions has long been one of the biggest challenges for researchers, limiting their ability to gather timely and reliable environmental data.
To address this challenge, Microsoft launched SPARROW (Solar-Powered Acoustic and Remote Recording Observation Watch), an AI-powered biodiversity monitoring platform developed by Microsoft's AI for Good Lab that enables continuous, real-time ecosystem monitoring through solar-powered edge computing, AI and satellite connectivity.
Businesses are facing growing pressure to improve supply chain transparency and meet evolving ESG regulations.
The European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is raising expectations around human rights and environmental due diligence, requiring organisations to take a more proactive approach to managing risk and creating sustainable supply chains.
Sedex provides the technology, expertise and services businesses need to navigate these evolving requirements while building sustainable, more responsible supply chains.
Executives
Ben Gomes
Chief Technologist, Learning and Sustainability
Håkan Björklund
CEO
Jon Hancock
Chief Executive Officer
Juan Lavista Ferres
CVP & Chief Data Scientist
Kate Brandt
Member Board of Trustees
Michelle Grogg
Executive Director, Mars Impact Fund
