A collection of insightful and educational resources focused on decarbonisation, electrification, AI infrastructure and the energy transition.
March 2026
What the Iran War Means for European Energy Security and Electrification
With gas storage at multi-year lows and electricity prices already undermining the heat pump transition, the conflict in Iran arrives at the worst possible moment for the UK and EU.
February 2026
Critical Power Equipment: The Current Plug to Decarbonising Europe
Europe’s clean energy rollout is bottlenecked by grid connections, not generation. A shortage of key equipment, especially large transformers, has created long lead times and rising costs. What are the consequences?
December 2025
The 7 principles of creating aI Data Centres With The Climate
Inference-first AI can be climate infrastructure—if we build it right. Here are seven principles to scale compute while strengthening grids, cutting emissions, and delivering local benefits.
November 2025
The next evolution of Data centres
AI is shifting from training to inference, and by 2030 most workloads will need smaller, faster, distributed data centres close to users and energy. This is the next evolution of data centres.
November 2025
Data Centre Hyperscale Growth - and Its Limits
AI infrastructure is reshaping energy, water, and materials systems. Learn why hyperscale data centres are reaching their limits and how the shift from AI training to inference unlocks a new trajectory.
October 2025
The Hidden Carbon Emissions in Data Centres
As the world focuses on decarbonising operational emissions from data centres, the embodied emissions - the carbon which is locked into the structure and hardware - remains the missing piece of the net-zero puzzle.
October 2025
Whitepaper: AI Infrastructure as climate infrastructure
Opna's latest whitepaper explores how distributed, right-sized data centres can align AI’s growth with community benefit and planetary resilience and act as Trojan horses for the climate transition.
September 2025
Reimagining data centres for climate and community equity
Data centres are too often treated as private utilities rather than community infrastructure. But by embedding equity at their core, data centres can move from extractive utilities to genuine shared infrastructure that delivers trust and long-term value.
August 2025
Can we build AI infrastructure as climate infrastructure?
The rise of AI has been compared to the industrial revolution. But the infrastructure powering this revolution draws on the same critical resources we all depend on. How can we build AI infrastructure as climate infrastructure, and equitably?
August 2025
$3 trillion for AI - but what about the planet?
AI is driving one of the fastest buildouts in history. These data centre facilities will power the AI era, but they’re also becoming its biggest climate liabilities, with the pace of emissions outstripping CDR.
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