SUSTAINABLE SWITCH — The climate tech that's cutting data center energy use

By Sharon Kimathi (Reuters) — Today’s newsletter continues from last week’s focus on data centers and we’ll be looking at some of the innovative startups that aim to solve their high energy and water consumption. As a brief refresher, last week’s newsletter explored the governmental policies and initiatives around the world aimed at data centers and their high resource consumption, with a few words from Amazon about their plans to decrease their water use. I spoke to Big Tech leaders and some innovative start-up founders working on solutions from geothermal solutions to direct-to-chip cooling and waste heat recovery aimed at solving the data center problem. Startups targeting AI data centers' soaring energy I began my journey into the world of climate tech aimed at reducing data centers’ energy and water use by speaking to Amy Duffuor, co-founder and general partner of Azolla Ventures, which specializes in scaling overlooked and underfunded climate solutions. I wanted to understand which companies are getting funded by investment firms like hers in order to scale up. One of the innovations she spoke about was offshore floating wind platforms co-located with data center infrastructu