The government has proposed new rules that would require data centers in the country to be powered by renewable energy, and use waterless cooling systems. Environment Minister Maria da Graca The post Government drafting new rules requiring data centers to be powered by renewable energy appeared first on Portugal Resident.

Wednesday promises a seismic shift in the attitudes between housing protesters and police. Not only has the PSP police union come out against what it denounces as the force being The post Housing protesters “disobedience”: investigation could end up in bin appeared first on Portugal Resident.

Faro Mayor António Miguel Pina says the best solution for the city’s long-closed municipal swimming pools may be to hand their rehabilitation and management to a private operator. The complex, The post Faro mayor backs private concession to revive municipal pools appeared first on Portugal Resident.

Former governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno, has commented today on the landslide results for the Democrats in Tuesday’s U.S. mid-term elections, noting that the results demonstrate the The post Former central bank governor reacts to U.S. mid-term ‘tsunami’ appeared first on Portugal Resident.

After days in which authorities appeared to try and finesse over who, in fact, ordered the police baton charges of housing protesters on three different occasions since last month, PSP The post PSP union accuses government of using police as political tool  appeared first on Portugal Resident.