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Seattle-area county reveals plans for ‘world leading’ sustainable aviation fuel R&D center

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million in the state’s transportation budget to get the project rolling. The state’s Legislature is likely to vote on the transportation budget in the next few weeks. Many Washington state companies and institutions have taken steps to support the plant-based fuels. Marko Liias and Rep. of jet fuel used worldwide.

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What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

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The stakes are high for Amazon as a whole, given the financial cushion that the industry-leading cloud division provides for the company at a time of belt-tightening inside the tech giant and across the industry. billion in operating profit , lifting the company to an operating profit of more than $2.5

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Robotics data startup led by former Amazon drone engineers emerges from stealth, raises $4.8M

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Yves Albers-Schoenberg (left) and Benji Barash, co-founders of Roboto, a new Seattle startup aiming to help robotics companies analyze data and fix problems. ” The problem is especially acute for smaller companies that don’t have big budgets to invest in building their own tools. “It becomes technical debt.”

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EU moves toward regulating data center energy and water use

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between 2020 and 2030. Companies providing cloud or web-based services to EU residents and businesses from data centers located elsewhere may also be subject to future energy use regulations, he says. “If project an annual data center growth rate of 10% or more through 2030. Several analyst firms, including McKinsey & Co.

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Computing at the edge of space: HPE and Microsoft conduct International Space Station experiments

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The companies announced Wednesday that they’ve completed their first experiments. Instead, the companies took software developed by Microsoft and packaged it up into Linux containers to process astronaut genomes on Spaceborne Computer-2.

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Bezos Earth Fund again poaches the leader of a grant recipient to help run its organization

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Under Pera’s leadership, “ClimateWorks grew its staff nearly five-fold, expanded its donor base to more than 40 donors, built its budget to more than $140 million in 2021, and moved approximately $640 million in grants to organizations advancing climate solutions around the world,” according to a statement from ClimateWorks.

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

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At the same time, companies are increasingly being held accountable for their environmental impact, with many countries legislating on emissions reductions. There is a clear company risk in not being sustainable, both to the planet and to the business. You can solve any problem given enough budget.

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