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

CIO Business Intelligence

Industry dynamics around sustainability are constantly evolving, which makes them tough to navigate, with few guidelines, little oversight, and conflicting opinions on the “right approach” to climate action. Capturing complete and accurate data and understanding how to use it requires a great deal of collaboration in and outside our industry.

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Google Cloud growth slows as Alphabet net income plunges

CIO Business Intelligence

Even though Google Cloud revenue growth showed signs of slowing, it nevertheless provided something of a bright spot as parent company Alphabet — hit hard by the tightening of customer budgets — posted a year-over-year decline in net income for its 2022 fourth quarter. Net income (profit) was $13.6 billion, up just 1% from $75.3

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

GeekWire

Some in the clean energy industry are skeptical it will ever work. “If commercial fusion energy becomes available by the end of this decade, it could ease all the various possible pathways to [carbon] net-zero by 2050.” By comparison, Washington state’s largest dam, the Grand Coulee Dam, can generate about 6.8

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

GeekWire

Washington state, by comparison, emitted 99.6 Smith and Joppa conclude their blog with a statement regarding their work in the energy industry. Chevron and Exxon have each announced an “aspiration” to get to net zero — but are not including scope 3 emissions in their tallies. trillion, its footprint of 13.8

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Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation

GeekWire

Amazon’s record 2020 results of $386 billion in net sales and $23 billion in operating profits, as noted in a presentation by Brian Olsavsky, chief financial officer, were almost an afterthought. “I say we face intense competition from well-established companies, everywhere we do business, in every industry,” he said.

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Amazon invests whooping $4B in AI venture Anthropic

Dataconomy

“The last 10 years, there’s been this remarkable increase in the scale that we’ve used to train neural nets and we keep scaling them up, and they keep working better and better. That’s the basis of my feeling that what we’re going to see in the next 2, 3, 4 years… what we see today is going to pale in comparison to that,” he stated.

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

Nvidia is arguably the biggest winner in the AI industry. Ben Bajarin, CEO and principal analyst at the tech industry research firm Creative Strategies, acknowledged that Nvidia had been “relatively isolated to a niche part of computing in the market” until recently. When it went public in 1999, Nvidia had 250 employees.