Forrester IT

MARCH 7, 2023

According to the International Energy Agency, data transmission networks consumed 260–340 TWh (terawatt-hours) in 2021, or 1.1–1.4% Sustainability efforts in telecommunications have to span efforts in hardware as well as software; they […] of global electricity use.

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TechSpot

JULY 16, 2022

to 2% of the world's energy and could be consuming as much as 13% within ten years. Around half of that energy is used by the computers themselves and 25% to 40% is used by air conditioning, says the US Department of Energy. According to two estimates from 2020, data centers consume anywhere from 1.5%

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Network World

AUGUST 26, 2024

A recommendation by a US Department of Energy (DoE) working group to create an AI test bed that will be mandated with finding ways to create data centers that are more energy efficient than they are today represents a good step forward, but much needs to be done, an analyst said today.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This Palace simulation visualizes the electric field energy density for a metamaterlal waveguide. AWS has been using Palace internally for its own quantum hardware development effort. Tweaking the model can show hardware developers how to optimize their designs for reliability and efficiency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution. So what does it take on the hardware side? For us, the AI hardware needs are in the continuum of what we do every day.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

John Ternus, Apple’s new senior vice president of hardware engineering | Photo: Apple. Apple’s hardware team is getting its biggest shakeup in nearly a decade, as Dan Riccio — who served as the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012 — transitions to “a new role” at the company. Photo: Apple.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The data center will be constructed on the former Britishvolt site at Northumberland Energy Park, a region previously earmarked for an electric vehicle battery facility. Ensuring a stable energy supply will be critical, as any disruptions could severely impact operations. “AI

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Forrester IT

MARCH 14, 2023

As I wrote at the time: “Energy prices are scary. Hardware upgrades are expensive, slow, and painful. Last year, a number of Forrester analysts discussed how manufacturers are responding to the challenges their industry faces right now. Supply chain disruptions are scary. Workforce modernization and empowerment are hard.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Oscilla Photo) Oscilla Power , a startup developing devices that capture wave energy to produce electricity, has ocean-sized ambitions. There are no land-based energy systems to borrow from and adapt to the sea. Navy Wave Energy Test Site. A fiberglass cover will protect the hardware. Oscilla has raised $7.5 In the U.S.,

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

The goal of the campaign, dubbed “Change the code, not the climate,” is to switch up the energy-hungry process of verifying transactions and mining new Bitcoins. Burning through so much energy generates some serious greenhouse gas emissions, but campaign organizers argue that it doesn’t have to be that way.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Breakthrough Energy Ventures , the multibillion-dollar clean-tech initiative created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is leading a $65 million funding round to back Kent, Wash.-based That performance played into Breakthrough Energy Ventures’ decision to lead an unusually large Series A funding round. Stoke Space Photo).

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Digital Realty and Equinix lead the pack of data center providers but still use much less renewable energy than some hardware and cloud giants. Read More.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

From a hardware perspective, the Apple Watch got a new, more powerful chip called the S9 SiP (system in package). The S9 is an upgrade to the Series 8's S8 SiP, allowing it to perform faster and handle more complicated AI tasks. However, this is behind-the-scenes stuff that most users. Read Entire Article

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

AI, security, energy-efficient computing , robotics, and virtual computing interactions are among the research firm’s top 10 strategic technology trends, which were unveiled at Gartner’s annual IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando. Energy-efficient computing Energy-efficient computing will continue to be a hot topic, according to Gartner.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Notably, the chip will send data directly from one compute engine to the next, leading to an efficient use of energy,” wrote Bargav Balakrishnan, vice president, product management, IBM Power, in a blog about the roadmap. The Power11 processor will feature a new integrated stack capacitor (ISC) technology and 2.5D

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Network World

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Today’s data centers have a multitude of well-known issues: They gobble up massive amounts of energy and space, are costly, and struggle to meet the intense resource demands of next-gen artificial intelligence (AI). This enables “orders of magnitude lower marginal energy costs,” the company wrote.

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Network World

JULY 30, 2024

AI appliance vendor NeuReality has announced its NR1-S solution significantly boosts the output of CPU- and GPU-based systems, reducing energy costs and energy efficiency, by taking over the work normally done by the CPU. The tests also measured energy consumption for audio processing per watt.

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Network World

JULY 24, 2024

“Here in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, we build leadership-class supercomputers for scientific applications,” said Matt Sieger, project director for Discovery, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at ORNL, which is managed and operated by UT-Battelle on behalf of the US Department of Energy.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Nvidia has partnered with hardware infrastructure vendor Vertiv to provide liquid cooling designs for future data centers designed to be AI factories. The architecture aims to optimize deployment speed, performance, resiliency, cost, energy efficiency and scalability for current- and future-generation data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

The supercomputers that power HPC, however, require more and more energy to operate. Dollars are moving to purchasing new energy-efficient hardware or devoting resources to optimization efforts or changing where HPC workloads are run. Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and Intel are supporting these organizational efforts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral atom hardware into our Azure Quantum compute platform,” Jason Zander, executive vice president of strategic missions and technologies at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Searching as a “utility” under the “energy infrastructure” category, for example, pulled up options including a U.S. Department of Energy program providing grants for developing solar energy hardware and software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

China is leading the world in the new energy sector. The rapid development of new energy has posed major challenges to power grids, which can only be solved through new forms of productivity. In China, the biggest concern is about the massive access to new energy and loads.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The APs come with built-in Bluetooth Low Energy, ultra-wideband, and GPS capabilities. Unified subscription model eases licensing The new Cisco Networking Subscription is designed to streamline the purchasing and use of Cisco software, hardware, services, and platforms.

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TechSpot

JULY 13, 2022

This week, VentureBeat's interview with AMD senior vice president Sam Naffziger included visuals showing the company's predictions for near-future hardware. While Naffziger expresses confidence AMD can hit its ambitions for energy efficiency gains over the next few years, AMD's numbers paint a concerning picture of rising energy demands.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 18, 2024

However, this undertaking requires unprecedented hardware and software capabilities, and while systems are under construction, the enterprise has a long way to go to understand the demands—and even longer before it can deploy them. The hardware requirements include massive amounts of compute, control, and storage.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 20, 2023

The software and hardware controlling what was supposed to be an energy-saving system became almost impossible to fix due to corporate buyouts and Chinese manufacturing shutdowns. Since August 2021, a Massachusetts high school has been unable to properly control its lights due to a software glitch.

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Tech Republic Big Data

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

El Capitan, built by HPE, tops the 2024 TOP500 list as the world’s fastest supercomputer, driving breakthroughs in AI, nuclear research, and energy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sajjad Moazeni of the University of Washington calculates that training an LLM with 175 billion+ parameters takes a year’s worth of energy for 1,000 US households. Answering 100 million+ generative AI questions a day can burn 1 Gigawatt-hour of electricity, which is roughly the daily energy use of 33,000 US households. Not at all.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Amazon has signed a $500 million deal with X-energy to deploy 5 gigawatts worth of small modular reactors (SMRs) in Washington state. Microsoft has made advanced nuclear energy, including technologies like SMRs and fusion , a part of its energy strategy. Nuclear fission is also one of the safest energy sources.

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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.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The system, achieved through a combination of Atom Computing’s neutral-atom hardware and Microsoft’s qubit-virtualization technology, aims to address the critical challenge of error detection and correction in quantum computation.

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Network World

OCTOBER 16, 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.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

Four microsatellites will study how the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, imparts energy and mass to the solar wind during NASA’s PUNCH mission. ” The satellites will orbit Earth in formation to study how the corona, which serves as the sun’s outer atmosphere, infuses the solar wind with mass and energy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Technology Solutions’ dominant model revolved around hardware products. Using a common foundation to cut through a multitude of complexities Multiple technologies, technology vendors, hardware- and software-driven infrastructure and assets coexist to form an intricate technology landscape. Outdated hardware also poses security risks.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Amazon just wrapped up its fall hardware event, and it was packed with a number of big announcements. In addition, the company will be rolling out an energy dashboard to help customers understand how much energy their Echo and Alexa devices are using.

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