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Amazon renewable power leader on AI’s energy strain, a political dust-up in Oregon, and more

GeekWire

1 corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide. As the retail, cloud and entertainment giant strives to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040, most of its carbon cuts so far have come from its shift to renewables. ” Charley Daitch, the Amazon Web Services director of energy and water strategy.

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Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 15% in 2019, highlighting the challenge of net zero emissions

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Amazon has pledged to make its retail and cloud-computing operations “net carbon zero” by 2040, but its newly released 2019 sustainability report shows that greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%. Amazon announced that it would run entirely on renewable energy by 2025, shaving five years from its earlier goal.

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

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(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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Data-driven sustainability: Dell’s commitment to industry standards

CIO Business Intelligence

The problem – there isn’t a PCF calculation standard, making it impossible for customers to do an “apples-to-apples” comparison of competitive products. energy), transportation, and end of life over a period of four years. Even though Dell and other manufacturers and suppliers use PAIA to estimate our PCF impact, there are challenges.

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Here’s why Microsoft’s carbon footprint grew 21% last year, as profits swelled

GeekWire

Though the company reduced some of its emissions sources, it grew in the massive “scope 3” category, which covers emissions from third parties — namely the goods and services purchased by Microsoft, the energy used by Microsoft’s consumer products, and the concrete and steel needed for its construction projects.

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Why a “room-temperature superconductor” would be a huge deal

Vox

But the science of why it matters is, by comparison, relatively simple. Making stuff super-cold and/or applying tons of pressure to it requires considerable energy, which in turns erodes some of the benefit that you get from a superconductor. In some cases, like MRIs, it’s worthwhile to expend that energy.

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What to expect from Tesla’s AI day event

The Verge

Tesla is developing a [neural net] training computer called Dojo to process truly vast amounts of video data,” he later tweeted. By way of comparison, chipmaker AMD and computer builder Cray are currently working with the US Department of Energy on the design of the world’s fastest supercomputer, with 1.5 It’s a beast!”.

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