Alibaba will join the Low Carbon Patent Pledge (LCPP) and make its main patents on green data centre technology available for free. Photo: Simon Song
Alibaba will join the Low Carbon Patent Pledge (LCPP) and make its main patents on green data centre technology available for free. Photo: Simon Song
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Alibaba joins Meta, Microsoft to share low-carbon technology patents on Earth Day

  • Alibaba will join the Low Carbon Patent Pledge (LCPP) and make its main patents on green data centre technology available for free
  • The nine patents include a unique cooling system Alibaba Cloud has deployed at its data centres, which has led to energy savings of more than 70 per cent.

Yujie XueEric Ng
Yujie Xue in Shenzhenand Eric Ng in Hong Kong

Updated: 5:30pm, 22 Apr, 2022

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Alibaba will join the Low Carbon Patent Pledge (LCPP) and make its main patents on green data centre technology available for free. Photo: Simon Song
Alibaba will join the Low Carbon Patent Pledge (LCPP) and make its main patents on green data centre technology available for free. Photo: Simon Song
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