Topic: energy efficiency
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Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Invests in PowerLattice's Power-Saving Chiplet
The surging demand for AI is straining global compute capacity and energy resources, making power consumption a critical industry bottleneck and driving the need for more efficient semiconductor solutions. PowerLattice, a startup founded in 2023, has developed a power delivery chiplet that positi...
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NBN Co Boosts Home Broadband with Energy-Efficient Devices
NBN Co is deploying new energy-efficient Network Termination Devices that reduce energy consumption by about 33% and support faster broadband speeds as part of its Accelerate Great program. The updated NTDs are lighter, use 84% post-consumer recycled plastic, and eliminate single-use plastic pack...
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Microsoft's New Cooling Tech Unlocks More Powerful Chips
Microsoft is developing a microfluidic cooling system that introduces liquid coolant directly into a chip's silicon, removing heat up to three times more effectively than conventional methods. This direct cooling method reduces the chip's maximum temperature rise by 65%, allows for safer overcloc...
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LG's AI Laundry: A Smarter, Greener Wash in the UAE
LG's AI-powered laundry solutions offer superior cleaning, significant energy savings, and intelligent fabric care, transforming household routines in the UAE. Advanced features like HeatPump technology and AI Core-Tech optimize performance, reducing energy use by up to 60% and protecting clothes...
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Abu Dhabi's AI Platform Aims to Save 160 Million m³ of Water Annually
The AD.WE AI platform, launched in Abu Dhabi, is projected to save 160 million cubic meters of water annually and reduce water and energy usage by up to 30% and 20%, respectively, while cutting costs by over AED 100 million. It utilizes real-time AI to analyze data for optimizing utility networks...
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NYC Startup's Fridge-Sized Device Makes Gasoline From Air
Aircela has developed a device that captures atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor, using electricity to synthesize carbon-neutral gasoline, provided the power is renewable. The current unit is limited, producing only about one gallon of fuel per day at a high upfront cost of $15,000-$20,000...
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Extropic's Plan to Revolutionize Data Centers
Extropic has launched its first functional hardware, featuring thermodynamic sampling units (TSUs) that use probabilistic bits, promising thousands of times greater energy efficiency for AI and scientific workloads compared to traditional CPUs and GPUs. The processors utilize thermodynamic electr...
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Intel Unveils 160GB Energy-Efficient Inference GPU in New Annual Release
Intel has launched the Crescent Island data center GPU, a 160GB model optimized for energy-efficient AI inference, marking the start of an annual GPU release schedule to compete in the AI infrastructure market. The GPU, built with Xe3P microarchitecture, is designed for high performance-per-watt ...
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Energy Workforce Shortages Hit 75% of Professionals
A severe global shortage of skilled energy professionals, reaching 90% in regions like the Middle East and North Africa, is hindering the implementation of energy efficiency solutions despite high demand. The workforce crisis is worsening due to impending retirements, with over a third of current...
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Microsoft's Light-Based Computer Could Boost AI Efficiency 100x
Microsoft researchers have developed a prototype analog optical computer (AOC) that uses light and voltage intensities instead of electricity, significantly boosting energy efficiency for AI tasks and complex problem-solving. The AOC avoids converting analog signals to digital, achieving up to a ...
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Positron's AI Chip Breakthrough Challenges Nvidia for Enterprise Inference
Positron challenges Nvidia's dominance with specialized AI chips optimized for memory bandwidth and power efficiency, targeting enterprise inference workloads. Positron's Atlas chip offers 2x-5x better performance per watt than Nvidia's H100, attracting early adopters like Cloudflare and securing...
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Neuromorphic Chip Boosts AI Sensor Intelligence
Neuromorphic technology, exemplified by Innatera's Pulsar microcontroller, offers groundbreaking energy efficiency and processing speeds, reducing latency to 1% of conventional processors while using just 0.2% of their power. Pulsar mimics the brain's neural activity with a hybrid analog-digital ...
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Tado's AI Learns How to Heat Your Home Perfectly
Tado's AI-driven system personalizes home heating for optimal comfort and energy efficiency by managing temperatures intelligently. It features Adaptive Heating that learns each room's thermal behavior and a Preheat function that warms the home automatically before your arrival. The system includ...
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Sustainable AI: Scaling Data Infrastructure for the Future
Australia is emerging as a major hub for AI infrastructure and data centers, attracting significant investment from global tech firms while facing the challenge of balancing growth with environmental responsibility. AI-driven data storage is growing faster in Australia than in many other countrie...
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Neurophos Raises $110M to Build Optical AI Chips for Inferencing
Neurophos, a photonics startup, has raised $110 million to develop ultra-efficient optical AI chips using a novel, miniaturized "metasurface modulator" to perform core AI computations with light. The company claims its technology offers a revolutionary leap in speed and energy efficiency, project...
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7 Cool Science Stories You Might Have Missed
Kangaroos and wallabies exhibit unique biomechanics where their hopping becomes more energy-efficient at higher speeds, contrary to most animals. Research published in *eLife* reveals this efficiency stems from a crouched hindlimb posture at speed, shifting work to the ankle and enhancing energy ...
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Unconventional AI Secures Record $475M Seed Funding
Unconventional AI, founded by former Databricks AI head Naveen Rao, has raised a record $475 million in seed funding at a $4.5 billion valuation, marking the start of a larger round targeting up to $1 billion. The startup is backed by major investors like Andreessen Horowitz and aims to build nov...
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Microsoft's Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs Revealed
AI is accelerating progress across diverse fields by enabling faster, more effective solutions and merging cutting-edge computation with practical environmental needs. Advanced AI algorithms are revolutionizing material science by predicting properties of unsynthesized substances, drastically sho...
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Fortinet Unveils End-to-End AI Infrastructure Security
Fortinet has launched the Secure AI Data Center solution, a comprehensive framework designed to protect the entire AI infrastructure, from data centers to applications and large language models, while offering advanced threat defense and reducing energy consumption by an average of 69%. The solut...
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Nokia, SoftBank Expand Japan Network Modernization Deal
Nokia and SoftBank have expanded their partnership to supply Japan with advanced 4G and 5G radio access equipment, focusing on modernizing networks and expanding 5G coverage in Western Japan. The agreement includes deploying Nokia's energy-efficient AirScale RAN solutions, featuring Habrok Massiv...
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LG, SK Enmove, GRC Partner on AI Data Center Liquid Cooling
LG Electronics, SK Enmove, and Green Revolution Cooling have formed a strategic alliance to advance and commercialize next-generation liquid immersion cooling systems for AI data centers. Liquid immersion cooling technology submerges servers in non-conductive fluid, offering superior energy effic...
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Dubai Ports Debuts First Smart Drone System to Boost Safety
The Dubai Ports Authority has launched "Port Eye," an autonomous drone system using AI and 4K thermal imaging to enhance safety, inspections, and environmental monitoring in Dubai's ports. This system significantly reduces inspection times from four hours to fifty minutes and improves efficiency ...
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2D Materials Integrated on Silicon Chips in Major Breakthrough
Scientists have successfully created a fully operational memory chip using two-dimensional materials integrated directly onto a standard silicon wafer, combining a 2D NOR flash memory array with a CMOS controller. The chip, fabricated via the ATOM2CHIP process, achieved a 94.34% yield, operates a...
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AI's Data Center Dilemma: Balancing Growth and Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI is driving unprecedented growth in data center construction, creating a need to balance computational demands with energy efficiency and reduced ecological impact. Investment in data center infrastructure has reached historic levels, with major tech companies like Micros...
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Scientists Build Living Computers from Human Cells
Swiss researchers are developing biocomputers using lab-grown human brain cells, aiming to create energy-efficient "living" servers that could replicate aspects of AI learning. These systems use neuron organoids derived from human skin cells, connected to electrodes to send and monitor electrical...
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AI's Growth Tests Data Center Sustainability, Says GlobalData
The rapid expansion of data centers is driven by AI workloads and the need for sustainable operations, leading to environmental challenges like high electricity use and water consumption. Investment in data center infrastructure has reached historic levels, with major tech firms like Microsoft an...
Read More » Google's Gemma 3: Tiny 270M AI Model Runs on Smartphones
Google's Gemma 3 270M is a compact, open-source AI model with 270 million parameters, designed to run locally on smartphones and other devices while maintaining strong performance for specialized tasks. The model operates efficiently on everyday hardware, with minimal battery drain (0.75% for 25 ...
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Revolutionary New Refrigeration Method Discovered by Scientists
Ionocaloric refrigeration is an innovative cooling method that uses ions to induce phase changes in materials, offering a safer and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional systems with high global warming potential. This technique, demonstrated through theoretical modeling and lab tes...
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LG Innovations Powering a Smarter Future in the UAE
The UAE is positioning itself as a global leader in creating a connected, sustainable, and human-centric future, driven by innovation that enhances daily life and well-being. Smart homes in the UAE are evolving into intuitive ecosystems with AI-driven appliances, such as intelligent climate contr...
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OpenAI, NVIDIA Partner on $100B AI Infrastructure Plan
OpenAI and NVIDIA have formed a strategic partnership to build the largest-ever AI infrastructure, involving a $100 billion investment from NVIDIA to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of computing systems. The initiative will launch in late 2026 using NVIDIA's new Vera Rubin platform, designed to supp...
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How Quilt Conquered the Heat Pump's Biggest Problem
Quilt's new three-zone heat pump, backed by $20 million in funding, uses real-world performance data from its installed devices to solve a key efficiency problem in extreme weather. The system maintains high efficiency by using a larger copper coil and a precisely controlled compressor, allowing ...
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Event Sensors: The Right Data for Smarter Devices
Neuromorphic event sensors mimic the human eye by recording information only when and where movement occurs, offering superior speed, energy efficiency, and performance compared to traditional cameras. These sensors operate asynchronously, with each pixel independently detecting changes in light ...
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e& UAE Unveils World's First 200G PON Prototype at GITEX 2025
e& UAE unveiled a world-first 200G Passive Optical Network prototype at GITEX GLOBAL 2025, achieving data rates up to 200 gigabits per second to enable ultra-fast, scalable connectivity for residential, commercial, and smart city uses. The technology uses advanced optical wavelength multiplexing ...
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NVIDIA's Strategic Focus on TSMC: A Deepening Partnership
A key manufacturer along the Xindian River produces wafers for NVIDIA's H100 and GB200 accelerators using the advanced 4NP process, meeting high demand for computing components. TSMC's transition to 3 nm technology increases transistor density, essential for managing power in next-gen AI clusters...
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CVector Secures $5M to Power Industrial 'Nervous System' with AI
CVector, an industrial AI startup, secured $5 million in seed funding to expand its platform, which acts as an intelligent system to translate operational actions into measurable cost savings for large industrial clients. The company's technology helps diverse customers, from established manufact...
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Electric Bike Regen Is Possible With This Genius Trick
CHARGE has innovated a simple mechanical redesign that enables regenerative braking in popular geared hub motors, a long-standing industry limitation, by connecting the disc brake rotor to the motor's internal gear carrier instead of its outer shell. This system uses the brake lever and pads as a...
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Trump Administration Expands Geothermal Energy Funding
A major $8.6 million federal grant will expand the first U.S. utility-led geothermal network in Massachusetts, adding about 140 new customer connections and funding performance research. The existing system efficiently heats and cools buildings by circulating water through underground pipes, allo...
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Amazon Unveils New AI Chip, Hints at Nvidia Partnership
AWS launched its new Trainium3 AI training chip and UltraServer system, promising major performance gains and a focus on improved energy efficiency for AI workloads. The Trainium3 chip offers over four times the speed and memory of its predecessor, with systems scalable to clusters of up to 1 mil...
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Google's AI Demand Forces 6-Month Capacity Doubling
Google must double its AI serving capacity every six months to meet demand, aiming for a thousandfold computational increase within four to five years while controlling costs and energy use. The surge in AI demand may stem from both user interest and Google's strategic integration of AI into prod...
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Broadpeak CEO: 15 Years of Streaming at Scale & The Future of Video
Success in the streaming industry hinges on collaboration among content creators, telecoms, and tech partners to achieve massive scale and effective monetization while enhancing viewer experience. Key innovations, such as multicast ABR and SaaS platforms, have been driven by partnerships with com...
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Anker-Backed Evotrex Unveils Hybrid RV
Evotrex is introducing a hybrid RV travel trailer that combines an onboard battery with a gasoline engine for extended off-grid power, using waste heat for cabin warming to boost efficiency and comfort. The company's market research shows a shift towards younger buyers seeking multi-day remote ad...
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NVIDIA's H100 GPU Launches AI Processing Into Orbit
Nvidia's H100 GPU, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is the first terrestrial-grade data-center GPU in space, offering a hundredfold performance increase over previous spaceborne computers for AI tasks like Earth observation analysis. Orbital data centers, as tested by Starcloud-1, reduce env...
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Vertiv, Ezditek Partner to Build AI Data Centers in Saudi Arabia
Vertiv and Ezditek have formed a partnership to accelerate the development of AI-ready data centers in Saudi Arabia, aligning with Saudi Vision 2030's digital transformation goals. The collaboration combines Vertiv's global infrastructure expertise with Ezditek's regional knowledge to deliver sca...
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Oracle and AMD Supercharge AI With 50,000 GPU Supercluster
Oracle and AMD are collaborating to build one of the world's largest publicly accessible GPU superclusters, powered by 50,000 next-generation AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs, with deployment starting in Q3 2026. This partnership enables training AI models up to 50% larger than before, democratizing acces...
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e& UAE, AMD Partner to Build Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
e& UAE and AMD have formed a strategic alliance to accelerate AI adoption and digital transformation in the UAE, focusing on sustainability, security, and local skills development. The partnership will expand e& UAE's use of AMD technology, including EPYC processors and Instinct GPUs, to build se...
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Carrier Unveils QuantumLeap Cooling for Data Centre World Asia
Carrier is launching its QuantumLeap thermal management system at Data Centre World Asia, featuring a range of cooling technologies tailored for data centers. The system integrates liquid and air cooling with smart controls to provide resilience, efficiency, and scalability for AI and hyperscale ...
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Samsung 990 Evo Plus 2TB SSD hits record-low $113 - 36% off for Prime Day
Samsung's 990 EVO Plus 2TB SSD is available at a record-low price of $113.99 (36% off) during Amazon Prime Day, making it a top choice for gamers and power users. The SSD features high-speed performance (7,250 MB/s read, 6,300 MB/s write) with energy-efficient V-NAND TLC and HMB technology, ideal...
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IBM Power11 Launches with Enhanced Uptime, Security & Efficiency
IBM's Power11 servers offer groundbreaking improvements in reliability, security, and processing power, tailored for AI-driven workloads across industries like finance and healthcare. The Power11 achieves 99.9999% uptime and features Power Cyber Vault for ransomware detection, quantum-safe encryp...
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Encharge AI Launches EN100 Chip with Breakthrough Analog Memory Tech
EnCharge AI's EN100 chip introduces analog in-memory computing, delivering over 200 TOPS of AI performance while operating within tight energy constraints, enabling local AI processing without cloud dependency. The EN100 features two form factors (M.2 for laptops and PCIe for workstations) with 2...
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Exowatt's Hot Rocks Could Power AI Data Centers
Exowatt aims to provide ultra-low-cost solar power at one cent per kilowatt-hour using modular, container-like units with concentrated solar technology and thermal storage for continuous energy supply. The company has secured an additional $50 million in funding to scale production, supported by ...
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