Topic: energy efficiency
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Gyre Energy raises $1.3M to cut cold store power costs at peak times
Gyre Energy has secured $1.3 million in funding to help cold storage facilities reduce energy costs during peak demand periods without compromising temperature integrity. The startup's software-based solution manages refrigeration power consumption to shift load away from expensive grid hours, re...
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Galaxy S26 Series May Have a Battery Health Downgrade
The Samsung Galaxy S26 series has achieved top-tier EU energy efficiency ratings and shows significant battery endurance improvements, with the Ultra model lasting up to 55 hours in tests. While maintaining strong durability with A-rated drop reliability and IP68 water resistance, the phones have...
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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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RepAir Carbon Expands to Luxembourg
RepAir Carbon, an Israeli developer of energy-efficient electrochemical direct air capture technology, has established its European headquarters in Luxembourg to access the region's growing market and supportive regulations. The company's core innovation is a solid-state electrochemical system th...
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Streaming Sustainability Report 2026
The streaming industry in 2026 faces a critical need to integrate sustainability initiatives into its core business strategy, with experts emphasizing that energy efficiency makes these goals more tangible and actionable. The environmental impact of artificial intelligence in streaming is complex...
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Unconventional AI debuts oscillator-based model slashing power use 1000x
Unconventional AI has released Un-0, an image generation model using a simulated oscillator-based architecture that performs comparably to leading diffusion models like Stable Diffusion, though it runs on software simulating hardware not yet physically built. The company's radically different com...
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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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FuriosaAI Brings Nvidia-Rival AI Chips to Europe
FuriosaAI has deployed its first RNGD AI accelerators in a Lisbon data center, targeting European enterprises seeking a more efficient, cost-effective alternative to Nvidia for local AI compute. The RNGD chip offers 512 teraFLOPS of FP8 performance at just 180 watts, enabling dense, air-cooled se...
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IBM claims first sub-1-nanometer chip technology
IBM announced a new chip architecture that packs roughly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized surface, nearly doubling transistor density compared to its previous generation. The technology, called the "world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology," is designed for AI data centers and...
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Homes Become AI Training Data Hubs
The immense energy consumption of centralized AI training is driving the industry to adopt decentralized methods, distributing computational workloads across a global network of devices to improve efficiency. Decentralized training relies on new hardware strategies like GPU-as-a-Service marketpla...
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Arm Launches In-House Chip Design Division
Arm is shifting from licensing its chip designs to manufacturing its own processors, specifically to compete in the AI chip market in response to direct customer demand. The company has developed the Arm AGI CPU, a data center processor built for AI workloads, manufactured by TSMC and touted as t...
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Brain-Powered Data Center Demands Daily Fluid Changes
Cortical Labs' CL1 biological computers require daily fluid changes to supply oxygen and glucose to the neurons, and operate in a specialized low-oxygen environment for optimal performance. The technology, which can run complex tasks like playing Doom, is promoted for its extremely low energy con...
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Nvidia’s hotter AI data center design cuts water usage
Nvidia claims its Rubin generation reference design for fully liquid-cooled data centers eliminates most power usage and nearly all water consumption, with water usage reduced from 2.6 million gallons per megawatt per year to near zero. The design runs AI servers at higher temperatures (up to 113...
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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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