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Microsoft’s carbon footprint keeps growing as AI drives data center expansions

GeekWire

But four years in, the carbon footprint for the cloud, software and gaming giant keeps expanding. The water is used primarily to cool the banks of computers in its data centers. of its cloud computer servers and other components. ” Alternative strategies include capturing rainwater and using reclaimed water.

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Microsoft pulls underwater data center back to the surface to assess benefits of deep-sea cloud

GeekWire

Members of the Project Natick team power wash algae, barnacles and sea anemones off the Northern Isles underwater data center, which was retrieved from the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. Microsoft Photo / Jonathan Banks). Microsoft Photo / Jonathan Banks).

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World Bank and GSA Discuss Data Center Optimization and Consolidation 9 June

CTOvision

Learn best practices and lessons learned on data center optimization and consolidation from leaders who have proven past performance in this domain. Frank Butler will kick off the discussion by describing how the World Bank optimized and consolidated their data centers, resulting in significant savings for the organization.

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Customer centricity: How Mashreq Bank is placing its customers at the forefront of its operations.

CIO Business Intelligence

Mohamed Salah Abdel Hamid Abdel Razek, Senior Executive Vice President and Group Head of Tech, Transformation & Information, Mashreq explains how the bank is integrating advanced technologies and expanding its digital footprint. This approach has significantly enhanced the customer banking experience.

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IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud Computing » IBM. IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z. IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z. With the acquisition of CSL International, IBM expands its cloud virtualization capabilities, making it even easier for clients to take advantage of Linux on System z.”

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Turkcell Cloud: Bringing sovereign cloud to Turkey’s regulated industries

CIO Business Intelligence

Now Turkey’s largest cloud services and data center provider is working to bring enterprises throughout the country a new level of data protection and peace of mind. Those demands increasingly call for sovereign cloud services.” For our customers, this distinction holds immense importance.”

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It’s time to go paperless: are bank branches ready?

CIO Business Intelligence

When the chief banking officer of a $10.3B community bank visited a competing super-regional branch in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she noticed something troubling. Today’s rapidly rising rate environment is driving activity across the country’s 72,000 bank branches 2. Consider the following real-world scenarios. ●

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