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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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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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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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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Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can help us fight climate change—but it also comes at a cost to the planet. To truly benefit from the technology's climate solutions, we also need a better understanding of AI's growing ...
Sep 12, 2019
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There's always room for another bright idea when it comes to safely storing the colossal amounts of electronic information we produce every day.
Jul 29, 2021
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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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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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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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Tesla on Tuesday announced it had set up a data centre in mainland China to store the information collected from users, following a backlash from users and officials in the world's biggest electric vehicle market.
May 25, 2021
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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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