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Amazon Web Services debuts 5-week accelerator for clean energy startups

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services is announcing the creation of a 5-week accelerator to support clean technology startups. Applications to the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator are being accepted starting today until June 4. The Seattle-based cloud and online retail giant is partnering with Freshwater Advisors ?

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Amazon Web Services launches startup accelerator for generative AI companies

GeekWire

The Amazon Web Services accelerator, revealed Tuesday, is a 10-week program aims to “empower companies applying generative AI to solutions from legal and marketing, to software engineering, green energy, and life sciences, including drug discovery.” ” It also provides up to $300,000 in AWS credits.

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To the moon! Amazon Web Services lists first startups for AWS Space Accelerator

GeekWire

The first 10 companies to participate in Amazon Web Services’ accelerator program for space-centric startups are targeting territory ranging from low Earth orbit to the surface of the moon and Mars. Lunar Outpost via YouTube). Today’s announcement follows up on the unveiling of the AWS Space Accelerator in March.

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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. Historically, we’ve been more multicloud or hybrid cloud, with private services as well,” says Claire Dickson, DS Smith’s CIO.

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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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Researchers want to put energy hogs like ChatGPT on a diet with more efficient computer chips

GeekWire

But they’re also sparking concern over the amount of energy needed to create and operate the systems. That’s on par with the annual energy use of roughly 1,000 U.S. That’s on par with the annual energy use of roughly 1,000 U.S. The data centers are where the “cloud” resides. But GPT-3 was only the start.

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Amazon bolsters its clean energy leadership with 9 new projects worldwide

GeekWire

Amazon on Monday announced nine new wind and solar energy projects, bringing its total number of renewable projects to 206. The cloud company and online retail sales juggernaut now claims to be the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in Europe. new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects in the U.S.,

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