Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As global AI energy usage mounts, Nvidia claims efficiency gains of up to 100,000X October 08, 2024 : As concerns over AI energy consumption ratchet up, chip maker Nvidia is defending what it calls a steadfast commitment to sustainability. Here’s a rundown of some of the announcements you might have missed.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

The framework allows developers to create apps that can run on Amazon Web Services, OpenStack clouds or VMware’s vCloud and vSphere environments. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Energy Efficiency Guide.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Colocation facilities like this Equinix data center are key components of many hybrid cloud infrastructures. Colocation centers are key components of many hybrid architectures, providing third-party space to securely host corporate infrastructure, as well as ultra-fast connections to public clouds like Amazon Web Services.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

billion) over the next five years in UK data centers. The money will be spent “building, operating and maintaining data centers in the UK,” an AWS statement said. By capex we mean data center construction and purchase of servers and server racks, and networking infrastructure,” she said in an email to Network World. “By

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

(Photo by Richard Owens , via Flickr, Creative Commons ) As tech companies scramble to secure new sources of energy, Microsoft on Friday announced a 20-year deal to restart a nuclear reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island — a facility made infamous by a partial meltdown in 1979. ” The partial meltdown impacted TMI-2.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

IT conglomerates from many data sources and services This has a huge impact on players in highly complex environments, such as the development of systems for autonomous driving or the energy networks of the future. They combine public cloud services from AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, for example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Salesforce’s AI Research team has also developed methods such as maximum parallelism, he adds, which split up compute-intensive tasks efficiently to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In industries such as manufacturing, aerospace, oil and gas, energy, and education, HPC can enable engineers, scientists, and researchers to conduct simulations and modeling at a speed not possible with traditional servers. HPC as a service : Another key trend is the emergence of HPC as a fully managed service inside enterprise data centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

CloudVelocity today released its One Hybrid Cloud software for migrating applications to Amazon Web Services. The company seeks to provide seamless movement of apps between cloud platforms and data centers, as shown in this diagram. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Image: CloudVelocity).

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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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Dataconomy

MARCH 13, 2025

Amazon, Google, and Meta Platforms have announced their support for tripling nuclear energy capacity worldwide by 2050, signing a pledge at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas, on March 12, 2025. They agree that nuclear capacity should expand to ensure energy resiliency, security, and a continuous, clean energy supply.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Macroeconomic conditions led by the pandemic and the geopolitical crisis in Ukraine have further slowed down growth of Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), in the third quarter of 2022. But we’ll continue to look for ways to optimize our operations to use less energy,” the CFO said during the earnings call.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

” In 2012 the company made an upgrade to its system, which resides in a containerized data center from IBM, located outdoors next to offices at Fox Studios in Australia. There’s also Amazon Web Services, which announced its AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region late last year. Modular Data Centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

On-prem data centers have an outsized impact on carbon emissions and waste. Public cloud data centers, by contrast, are 93% more energy-efficient and produce 98% lower GHG emissions than on-premises datacenters, according to Microsoft and WSP Global. Let them do the job of efficiently running data centers.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

This also includes safeguarding prospective customers from unexpected costs: the company’s Cloud Pricing Calculator gives enterprises a detailed quote for cloud services, whether it’s for the multi-tenant or dedicated private IT Vortex Cloud or VMware integrations with public clouds including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2021

Amazon on Monday announced nine new wind and solar energy projects, bringing its total number of renewable projects to 206. The cloud company and online retail sales juggernaut now claims to be the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in Europe. Energy Information Administration , the country this year is expected to add 15.4

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Providing hardware, software, and IT solutions and services, the company also delivers an extensive array of cloud offerings from dedicated private clouds to deployments with the world’s largest hyperscalers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Datacenters are also built with sustainability in mind.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Amazon Web Services, or AWS, has been setting the standard for online e-commerce solutions for some time now. Amazon has 11 different regions with a number of data centers using a service like hadoop cloud within each region. Within each data center, Amazon has created a number of availability zones.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2023

1 corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide. “Renewable energy is the place where you have a big impact on our carbon footprint today,” said Charley Daitch , the Amazon Web Services director of energy and water strategy. AWS Photo) Other tech giants are likewise investing in carbon-free energy.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. Rackspace Adds Cloud Services. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Amazon Web Services announced it is dropping the prices of dedicated instances on EC2 cloud computing by up to 80 percent. About Jason Verge Jason Verge is an Editor/Industry Analyst on the Data Center Knowledge team with a strong background in the data center and Web hosting industries. Emil Sayegh.

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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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Inside an Amazon data center in Ohio. AWS Photo) Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, joined government officials and energy-sector leaders today in Virginia to announce multiple agreements to promote the expansion of next-generation nuclear power. During the event at Amazon’s second headquarters, U.S.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Or should it make it easier to shift OpenStack clouds to Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine for companies that want to use both approaches in a hybrid infrastructure? Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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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 3, 2024

Do you have the data center and data science skill sets?” The company now uses Amazon Web Services, where translation and dubbing workloads for customers are handled, to be reviewed by an HITL. But the high energy demands of the current generation of GPUs will only increase, according to IDC’s Rutten.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2023

But they’re also sparking concern over the amount of energy needed to create and operate the systems. That’s on par with the annual energy use of roughly 1,000 U.S. That’s on par with the annual energy use of roughly 1,000 U.S. The data centers are where the “cloud” resides.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As AI use is ramping up, Amazon Web Services and fellow hyperscale data center companies such as Microsoft and Google are making big investments in their computing capacity and expanding their electricity demands. Emissions also come from new infrastructure, including AWS data center construction and computer hardware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

With a full portfolio that includes an extensive array of cloud offerings – including private, public, and hybrid cloud services – the company is well-known for its track record of success in helping organizations realize the full potential of the cloud while bypassing the complexity often associated with large-scale digital transformations.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Linux Containers take center stage - Linux Containers of all forms, will mature and become interoperability building blocks of the cloud computing world. The Microsoft-IBM Cloud Computing Alliance will be model as other IT behemoths partner to take down Amazon Web Services.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses massive amounts of energy to keep its servers online. In 2019, Greenpeace accused the cloud computing company of abandoning its pledge to use 100 percent renewable energy and said that some of the largest AWS data centers used just 12 percent renewable energy.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

(Photo via LinkedIn) — Charley Daitch , former director of energy and water for Amazon Web Services, is now CEO of Rowan Digital Infrastructure. Denver-based Rowan designs and builds sustainable hyperscale data centers for global tech giants.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

However, nearly three in four said that they can’t find the talent they need, according to a survey conducted by Access Partnership and Amazon Web Services. This domain covers designing for regulations regarding data sovereignty and data locality, energy use, and cost optimization.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 14, 2021

About: An integrated platform for the composition of cross-industry digital services leveraging the true power of 5G edge clouds. Amazon Web Services, Cognizant, ServiceNow, Sterlite Technologies Limited, Subex. Title: Smart IDC - Intelligent energy saving for data centers. Verizon, Colt. Participants.

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Tech Republic Data Center

JULY 9, 2024

Graviton4 based Amazon EC2 R8g instances are more powerful and energy-efficient than the previous generation, AWS says.

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