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• Quadrent and BNZ team up to offer a green lease for IT fleets

  ​A new "green" hardware finance partnership is preparing to engage end users and resellers to tackle the fast growing e-waste challenge.

• Datacentres are the new polluters

  US datacentres use more electricity than they need, a new report finds, and IT managers are too cautious about managing power and businesses are unwilling to invest in energy conservation.

• Tech breakthroughs may mean 'digital everything' by 2025

  Forget carrying a smartphone in your pocket. In about 10 years, we're likely to have digitally connected cars, smart homes, as well as refrigerators and dishwashers that can think for themselves.

• Researchers explore growing solar panels from bacteria

  MIT researchers have taken the first steps toward creating solar panels from living material by combining bacteria with nonliving materials such as gold that can conduct electricity and emit light.

• Scientists achieve nuclear fusion with giant laser

  Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Wednesday said they've achieved a first: A nuclear fusion system has produced more energy than it initially absorbed

• Iceland taps the ultimate renewable energy source: Earth's magma

  Boring thousands of meters into the ground, Icelanders broke through to the magma layer, uncovering a vast ocean of lava that is now being used to produce steam power.

• Microsoft sees huge potential in fuel cells

  Microsoft is investigating the use of fuel cells to power data centers, arguing in a paper released Tuesday that its studies find it a technology with much potential.

• SAP plays up sustainability angle

  Organizations seeking ways to conserve energy and profit from being green may find the true gains won’t come from "greening" their data centers, but rather by maximizing the efficiency of their supply chains, said Peter Graf, the chief sustainability officer for SAP.

• IDC: Sustainability pressure hits IT managers hardest

  The pressure to achieve business efficiency and sustainability is piled on IT managers more than anyone else in business, according to a new IDC survey.