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Phaidra raises more cash from Mark Cuban and others to build the ‘future of industrial automation’

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It will use the fresh cash to accelerate growth in industries such as process heating and cooling, chemical manufacturing, and paper and pulp. It helped reduce Google’s data center cooling energy consumption by 40%. “Our goal is to become the future of industrial automation,” Gao said.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

This data can then be combined to provide insights and information to lower energy usage and reduce impact on the environment – for example, by giving notifications of water leaks, chemical spills or exterior doors that are left open. The challenge is to solve the problem in the most efficient way possible.

Energy 88
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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

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Active in 69 countries, Eni works across the value chain—from natural gas and oil to electric and renewable energy generation, traditional and bio-refining and chemicals. Data analytics is the key to unlocking the most value you can extract from data across your organization. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76 Rpeak (TFlop/s], and 860.32

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‘Circular economy’ event in Seattle draws attendees from around world working to cut waste

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Recent initiatives include: State and local agencies created a program called NextCycle Washington , which runs an accelerator to support sustainable, circular economy businesses. Restrictions on the use of PFAS or “forever chemicals” in food packaging.

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Are quantum computers for real? So far, the uncertainty principle rules the day

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The IonQ Forte quantum system is roughly the same size as a standard data center cabinet. A data center cabinet? “So the size of the program I run is not dictated by the number of qubits. IonQ’s computers are about the size of the cabinets you might see in a cloud-computing data center.

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10 most powerful ERP vendors today

CIO Business Intelligence

Power moves: Not resting on its laurels, SAP has announced a company-wide transformation program and restructuring aimed at strategic growth areas, particularly AI. SAP says it will reach that number through voluntary leave programs and internal reskilling.

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Can AI boost clean energy efforts? Tech and policy leaders discuss solutions in Seattle

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Granholm asked participants for ideas on creating a training pilot program. Jason Zander, Microsoft executive vice president of strategic mission and technologies, said the tech giant was working to find less toxic chemicals that can be used to cool its massive data centers.

Energy 84