Data centers are guzzling up too much electricity. Can we make them more efficient?
Our insatiable demand for digital content and services has been driving a rise in energy-hungry data centers.
Jul 29, 2024
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Business
Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions—nobody knows what to do about it
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has seen an incredible surge in investment, development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. According to one estimate, the amount of computational ...
Jul 8, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
AI's excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions
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
Seven ways to recycle heat and reduce carbon emissions
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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The environmental cost of data centers is substantial. Making them energy-efficient only solves half the problem
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
Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It's complicated
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
Reducing your electric bill with a predictive control heating system
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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Could video streaming be as bad for the climate as driving a car? Calculating Internet's hidden carbon footprint
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
Study details scale of human labor needed to keep 'the cloud' aloft
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 moves to avert EU antitrust clash over cloud
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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