Energy & Green Tech
Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing and polluting an unsubstitutable resource and system.
Mar 22, 2024
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Engineering
Heating of space and water in buildings accounts for about 44% of all energy consumed globally according to the International Energy Agency. This heat is still overwhelmingly generated by burning fossil fuels, making it an ...
Apr 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
In 2022, Indonesia hosted around 215 million internet users, who spent an average of more than eight hours on the internet every day.
Apr 4, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Digital technologies are changing how food is produced. And it's more than harvesting robots that are arriving on the scene. Companies are now pairing data centers with greenhouses, capturing the heat emitted by computing ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Engineering
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has tested a system to predict the heating needs on the Gløshaugen campus. The results show that we can save even more where surplus heat is already in use.
Feb 16, 2023
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Internet
We are used to thinking that going digital means going green. While that is true for some activities—for example, making a video call to the other side of the ocean is better than flying there—the situation is subtler ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Internet
The representation of cloud technology as an automated realm powered by ethereal data flows fails to do justice to the exhaustive human effort that is required to keep the data centers behind it running.
Nov 30, 2022
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Business
Microsoft on Wednesday said it was loosening its licensing requirements with cloud companies as it seeks to fight off regulators after growing complaints of monopolistic practices.
May 18, 2022
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Business
With vast amounts of cheap and renewable electricity mostly generated from hydro dams, Quebec is seeing more and more tech giants setting up power-hungry data centres in the Canadian province.
Oct 23, 2021
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Internet
Hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday, underscoring the world's reliance on platforms owned by the Silicon Valley giant.
Oct 5, 2021
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