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AI Is Exploding Data Center Energy Use. A Google-Created Technique May Help
26Feb By adminNo Comments
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AI Is Exploding Data Center Energy Use. A Google-Created Technique May Help

[ad_1]  Tech giants are racing to ward off a carbon time bomb caused by the massive data centers they're building around the world.A technique pioneered by Google is gaining currency as more power-hungry artificial intelligence comes online: Using software to hunt for clean electricity in parts of the world with excess sun and wind on the grid, then ramping up data center operations there. Doing so could cut carbon and costs. There's an urgent need to figure out how to run data centers in ways that maximize renewable energy usage, said Chris Noble, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cirrus Nexus, a cloud-computing manager tapping data centers owned by Google, Microsoft and Amazon. The climate risks sparked by AI-driven computing are far-reaching — and will worsen without a big sh...
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The World Can’t Tackle the Climate Change Crisis Without New Technologies: Bill Gates
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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The World Can’t Tackle the Climate Change Crisis Without New Technologies: Bill Gates

[ad_1] On Climate Change Crisis, green technologies must become cheap enough for every country to use them, says Bill Gates. With a possible recession looming, Bill Gates is preparing to raise a new fund for Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) to back innovative climate startups, on the heels of two billion-dollar funds that have together helped finance roughly 100 companies. “Even as the ebullience in investing in tech and climate companies is down a bit, I still think we'll be able to raise the money,” Gates said on the latest episode of Bloomberg Green's podcast, Zero. “It's not quite as easy as it was, say six months ago, but we're looking at a new round for the startups and a pool under Breakthrough Energy Management t...
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