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Scottish data hosting company Alchemy Plus have developed an excellent idea to use the excess heat generated by their new Inverness based data centre to keep shops, offices and a even a hotel warm.

Everywhere you look right now you see green this, green that. It’s on the tip of everyone who loves a debate’s tongue, and is debated at al levels of society and industry. The one place that’s escaped the notion of green computing is something that pretty much every home has these days – games consoles.

The European Commission (EU) has requested that data centre owners voluntarily sign a Code of Conduct which encourages a best practice when it comes to energy efficiency, and provide monthly energy reports and an overall annual report to an EU secretariat.