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Singapore government pushes energy-efficient data center plan

Network World

GW of data center capacity with at least 300 MW of additional capacity in the near term, with more to come through green energy deployments, it announced earlier this week. Singapore wants to go beyond that and reduce energy use for air-cooling by raising the temperatures at which servers and storage racks can safely operate.

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We Need Multifaceted Tech Now to Curb Extreme Wildfires

Information Week

A daunting new era of wildfires and an aging energy grid require that we combine technologies, including hardware, data tools and AI models, to extinguish the threat.

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New PlayStation 5 hardware revision loses weight, cuts on energy consumption

TechSpot

A few days ago, a new hardware model of the 9th-gen gaming machine hit retailers in Australia, the second revision to arrive on the market after the console's initial. A new high-end controller and increased retail price are not the only recent changes Sony is making to the PlayStation 5.

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Making Remarkable Energy Grids a Reality

CIO Business Intelligence

While the energy sector has long embraced IT, it’s on the verge of a digital makeover. The dilemma of constantly growing energy demand and the need to address the global climate crisis using increasing amounts of intermittent renewables drives energy companies to make advancements in IT automation and AI, edge computing, and communications.

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Forr The Planet: Sustainability Interview Series — Mary de Wysocki, Chief Sustainability Officer at Cisco

Forrester IT

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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Intel is designing new hardware with immersion cooling in mind

TechSpot

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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EU moves toward regulating data center energy and water use

CIO Business Intelligence

The European Union will take a big step toward regulating energy and water use by data centers in September, when organizations operating data centers in EU nations will be required to file reports detailing water and energy consumption, as well as steps they are taking to reduce it. between 2020 and 2030. between 2020 and 2030.