Forty global mayors sign C40 pact to push sustainable urban data center development
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Jennifer McDermott, Anton L. Delgado
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Forty mayors from cities around the world, including Phoenix and Melbourne, have signed a pact launched by C40 Cities during London Climate Action Week to shape sustainable urban data center development. The initiative aims to ensure data centers are built and operated without depleting cities' natural resources, driving up energy prices, or undermining climate targets. While many new data centers are being built in rural areas for cheap land, the C40 alliance argues metropolitan areas face tremendous pressure from data center growth and need governance frameworks to manage it sustainably.
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· 3 pulledForty mayors from around the world have signed onto a pact announced Tuesday to try to shape how urban data centers are built and operated.
It's their vision for how urban data center development can be done sustainably — and not at the expense of their cities' natural resources, energy prices or climate targets.
Many new data centers are coming to rural areas for cheap land.
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