Topic: carbon emissions
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AI's 2025 Energy Surge: Water and Power Use Soars
The environmental impact of AI is significant and growing, with its energy use projected to exceed Bitcoin mining and its carbon emissions now comparable to a major global city like New York. AI's massive water consumption for data center cooling and associated power plants is a major concern, wi...
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Fastly's New Dashboard Helps Businesses Make Climate-Smart Decisions
Fastly's sustainability dashboard provides businesses in Australia and New Zealand with detailed, actionable data on carbon emissions from using its edge computing services, helping them meet regulatory demands and optimize their environmental footprint. The tool offers comprehensive insights int...
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DACLab Cuts CO2 Removal Energy Use Below Competitors
Despite global pledges to reduce carbon emissions, they reached a record high last year, increasing the urgency for effective carbon removal technologies like direct air capture (DAC). DACLab has developed a system that uses only 1,500 kWh per metric ton of CO₂ captured, improving on the industry...
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Rackspace Unveils 2025 Sustainability Report
Rackspace Technology released its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing progress toward net-zero emissions and alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals, including a 10% reduction in total emissions from 2023 to 2024. The company's greenhouse gas reduction targets are validated by the Scien...
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AI's Carbon Footprint: A Problem We Can Solve
The rapid growth of AI-driven data centers is projected to cause a 60-80% increase in U.S. electricity demand by 2050, significantly raising power sector carbon emissions. Strategic policy interventions, such as reinstating tax credits for wind and solar power, could cut future CO2 emissions by o...
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Seize the Climate Tech Investment Opportunity Now
The global emissions outlook has improved dramatically over the past decade, with current worst-case projections now matching what was once considered the best-case scenario, indicating stronger momentum for climate solutions than previously acknowledged. This positive shift is largely driven by ...
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Designing Sustainable Products with AI Innovation
Siemens redesigned a robot gripper using AI-driven generative design, reducing its weight by 90% and parts by 84%, despite it being only 2% of the robot's mass. This redesign results in an annual reduction of 3 tons of CO2 emissions per robot, which is significant when scaled across the global fl...
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AI's Unsustainable Resource Demand: NTT DATA's Urgent Solutions
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence carries a significant environmental cost, primarily due to high electricity consumption in data centers, water usage for cooling, and electronic waste generation. AI also offers solutions to environmental challenges by improving energy grid efficiency, ...
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Amazon Workers Sound Alarm on 'All-Costs' AI Development
Over a thousand Amazon employees, supported by thousands from other tech firms, are protesting the company's aggressive AI strategy, warning it could harm democracy, jobs, and the environment. The protest highlights concerns that AI is being used to justify workforce reductions and massive invest...
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The Best US Locations for New Data Centers
Strategic data center placement is critical for balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability, as location significantly affects energy and water usage. A study warns that current corporate net-zero pledges may conflict with the high energy and water demands of AI-driven data center...
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AI's Impact on Jobs, Security, and Prosperity: The Debrief
Young people are increasingly anxious about AI's impact on their future, particularly regarding job displacement, as tech leaders predict significant losses in white-collar roles. The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is exacerbating environmental issues, with data centers consuming massive am...
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Feds Seek to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Controversial Climate Report
The federal government is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the Department of Energy violated federal law by assembling a panel with fringe climate views to produce a report contradicting established science. The resulting report controversially suggested carbon emissions might be beneficial,...
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Mazama's Super-Hot Rock Tech Aims for 24/7 Clean Power
Mazama Energy has created the world's hottest geothermal well in Oregon, reaching 629°F, offering reliable emissions-free electricity to meet rising demand from data centers and EVs. This enhanced geothermal system can generate gigawatt-scale power, with potential for over 100 gigawatts, exceedin...
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Samsung, SK Hynix to Supply Chips for OpenAI's Stargate
Samsung and SK Hynix will supply advanced memory chips for OpenAI's Stargate project, ramping up production to meet a demand of up to 900,000 semiconductor wafers monthly. OpenAI is discussing the establishment of two new AI data centers in South Korea with the companies, and Samsung is exploring...
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