Dataconomy

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Google’s growing focus on sustainable energy may soon incorporate nuclear power as a key resource for fueling its AI data centers, as hinted by CEO Sundar Pichai in a recent interview. By 2030, Google has set a bold target to achieve net-zero emissions across all aspects of its global operations. “A

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Generative AI will soon be everywhere — including in Salesforce’s Net Zero Cloud environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting tool. Net Zero Cloud uses data held within the Salesforce platform to help enterprises report on their carbon footprint and manage other social and governance metrics.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

GSMA analysis shows that mobile operators are making progress in using renewable energy but says more effort must be made to increase supplies if they are to meet net zero carbon emission goals by 2050. Renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, is an important part of operators’ carbon emission reduction strategies.

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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2024

Helion Energy employees working on a component of its Polaris device, a seventh-generation fusion prototype that it expects to produce electricity. Projections for future energy needs for data centers are startling. gigawatts to fuel a fraction of its data center operations worldwide. In the U.S. In the U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2024

American utility and power company AES launched a renewable energy program in mid-2022 that is not only reducing its carbon footprint but adding wealth to its coffer. The project, dubbed Farseer AI Generation Forecasting and Market Automation Program, was developed by a handful of AES data scientists in partnership with Google.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2024

Microsoft’s Thermal Energy Center at its Redmond, Wash. The center taps geothermal energy from the earth to provide clean power. As its carbon impact expanded, the company reported a net income of $72.4 gigawatts of clean energy already in its portfolio. headquarters. billion gallons last year.

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Dataconomy

JULY 1, 2024

EU-funded project is set to change the course of digital storage by launching data centers into space, aiming to reduce Earth-bound energy consumption and enhance data sovereignty. Data centers, critical for digital progression, consume substantial electricity and water to operate and cool their servers.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But as renewable electricity becomes increasingly central to countries’ energy security, particularly in Europe, energy network digitization is once again an important focus for the industry. in the energy sector. in the energy sector. the Telia press release. smart grids. digitalization. smart grids.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

(Amazon Photo) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sat down Thursday with Kara Hurst, the company’s chief sustainability officer, to discuss the cloud, retail and entertainment giant’s efforts to meet a pledge of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2023

1 corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide. As the retail, cloud and entertainment giant strives to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040, most of its carbon cuts so far have come from its shift to renewables. ” Charley Daitch, the Amazon Web Services director of energy and water strategy.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2024

In its annual sustainability report, the cloud, e-commerce and entertainment giant touted its clean energy accomplishments, noting it has purchased a volume of renewable power equal to its electricity use — meaning Amazon hit its 100% clean energy target seven years ahead of its goal.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

However, the latest and largest UNGC-Accenture CEO study revealed that 91% of CEOs report insufficient technology solutions as a barrier to seizing opportunities in the net-zero transition, building resilience in their organization, and overcoming current volatility in the business landscape.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Microsoft contractors mixed test slabs of lower-carbon concrete at the site of a new data center in Quincy, Wash. Dan DeLong Photo for Microsoft) Microsoft is building 120 new data centers this year alone, and operates more than 300 of the server hubs worldwide. So the Redmond, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

(Helion Photo) Microsoft and Helion Energy on Wednesday announced a historic agreement that could pave the way to the world’s first fusion power plant. Engineers for decades have chased the promise of fusion energy — a potentially limitless source of carbon-free power. The goal is to get the plant running by 2028.

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Tech Republic

AUGUST 16, 2023

AWS, Cisco, Apple and others are deploying a variety of tactics to achieve lower carbon footprints, with everything from lower-energy coding to AI applied to power sources.

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TM Forum

AUGUST 19, 2021

Nonetheless, our energy consumption is rising fast, hand in hand with data traffic, increasing our industry’s responsibility for climate change. The 5G NR radio access network (RAN) standard was intentionally designed to be more energy efficient per gigabyte when compared with 4G LTE. the generation of e-waste.

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GeekWire

MARCH 27, 2024

The gas would be used to power three data centers in the state. Last week, the Troublemakers sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, asking him to cancel plans to tap into the GTN Xpress gas pipeline and use the fuel for its data centers, which house powerful computers that create the backbone for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And the importance of energy efficiency for enterprise IT cannot be overstated. With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. The migration to software-defined data centers was an important step in the right direction, but it’s just the beginning.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

The new owner, a long-time player in data center real estate, acquired the building from Hines Property Trust. The 30-story building in downtown Los Angeles has more than 300 tenants, including dozens of data center firms and telecom carriers. ” The Data Center Premium. . Longtime Partners in Sector.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

“When Involta was founded in 2007, sustainability wasn’t a top-of-mind issue for the industry, but our founders understood its importance and continually made everyday improvements that promoted energy efficiency and reduced our carbon emissions,” says Kremer. Data centers today use nearly 1% of electricity and create.3%

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“Water scarcity is no longer just an environmental issue; it’s a critical economic concern that impacts global supply chains, transportation, and energy production,” Earth Finance CEO Garrett Kephart said in a statement. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Reaching those goals, however, will be difficult.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

In addition to committing to being carbon neutral by 2030 or earlier as its data centers use even more renewable energy sources, Corriero notes that the company is taking a number of additional steps. All steps are being taken at IT Vortex’s data centers in Arizona, California, Colorado, and New Jersey.

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2020

The latest announcements include the largest single renewable energy investment Microsoft has ever made. The company is investing in 500 megawatts of renewable energy from Sol Systems , equivalent to the energy needed to power more than 70,000 homes in the U.S. The investment will fund solar energy projects in the U.S.

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Microsoft Company .Net Energy 145

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In response, oil and gas majors are making headway in terms of carbon reporting, net-zero targets, and accountability. Many have even spun up renewable energy arms. Recent studies indicate that data centers consume one percent of the world’s electricity , and The Royal Society estimates that digital technology contributes up to 5.9%

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2021

The company said that it had also achieved its goal of “net zero emissions” — not putting any more emissions into the atmosphere than it can take out. Facebook also announced that it had achieved another goal: it now purchases enough renewable energy to cover 100 percent of its global operations, which includes its offices and data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

SustainableIT.org recently released its first set of IT-based environmental, social and governance standards to provide CIOs with precise technical guidance about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce energy consumption. What the bigger cloud providers can do is negotiate better contracts with clean energy providers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

No customer data will be used to train external foundational AI models, said Bharat Sandhu, the company’s SVP for AI and application development platform. Other major enterprise software vendors have made similar generative AI announcements this month, with varying degrees of precision and precipitation in their timelines.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Amazon has moved to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, like committing to electrifying its delivery vehicles , and it has recruited dozens of companies to sign its Climate Pledge , a corporate commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses massive amounts of energy to keep its servers online.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google just made one of Big Tech’s most ambitious environmental commitments: it will work to run its operations purely on renewable energy by 2030. Last September, Google announced what it said was “the biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history,” which increased the company’s wind and solar agreements by 40 percent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Dimension Data is widely known for bold innovations and stalwart cloud solutions and services that enable enterprises to dramatically improve their businesses; now it is on mission to benefit the planet – and in the process, the communities it services and the economies it influences. Our approach, guided by the U.N.’s

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

degrees Celsius, and our executive committee approved the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2040 across Telefonica’s entire value chain,” says Ribaya. “As a company, we have strengthened our commitment to help limit the global temperature increase to 1.5

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The company committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by the end of this decade, pledging to do “all it can across its operations” to stop polluting before it turns to emerging technologies that might be able to capture carbon dioxide after it’s emitted. Amazon committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2040.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2022

In fact, more than 3,200 companies have set science-based carbon targets , and thousands of companies from around the world are pledging to reach net-zero emissions by either 2040 or 2050. Data: Use data to share information around sustainability efforts.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Just a day after announcing a new project in Amsterdam , the data center developer said it will partner Dutch telecom provider KPN to build a data center in Groningen. ” In data center circles, Groningen is known as the location for an early European data center for Google. White Papers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Schneider notes that because Bechtle business extends far beyond the company’s data center operations its sustainability efforts also encompass a much wider array of business functions. For example, the company’s headquarters at Neckarsulm achieved the noteworthy achievement of being powered by 100% green energy since 2021.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 19, 2024

The telecom industry is very energy-dependent, and most of the emphasis in recent years has been on technological innovation to do with speed and connectivity. Telecom infrastructure like data centers, networks, and towers rely heavily on electricity, contributing significantly to emissions.

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