Blogs & articles

Blogs & articles

Blogs & articles

A collection of insightful and educational resources focused on decarbonisation, electrification, AI infrastructure and the energy transition.

Data Centres The Next Evolution

AI Infrastructure: 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.

Data Centres The Next Evolution

AI Infrastructure:  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.

Data Centres Hyperscale Growth and Its Limits

AI Infrastructure:  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.

AI Infrastructure: Embodied Carbon in Data Centres

AI Infrastructure:  Embodied Carbon 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.

AI Infrastructure: Trojan horses for climate infrastructure

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.

data centres opna climate solutions

Data centres: 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.

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Data centres: 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?

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Data centres: $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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