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Data Centers Are Pushing Ireland’s Electric Grid to the Brink

Gizmodo

Behind every TikTok, Zoom call, and cat meme is a data center that stores, processes, or reroutes that data around the world. The more we do online, the bigger these data centers and their energy footprint get. Read more.

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Apple, Amazon Unveil Major Renewable Energy Deals to Power Cloud Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

The current surge of data center construction projects by internet and cloud giants is accompanied by a surge in investment in renewable energy generation capacity. Read More.

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Private Data Center Trends for 2014 and Beyond

CTOvision

Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.

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With Energy Harvesting Circuits Spansion Aims for Greener Internet of Things

Data Center Knowledge

Capable of capturing solar and vibration energy, circuits meant to replace batteries or prolong battery life in IoT devices Read More. Internet of Things s spansion'

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10 reasons to keep that data center running

CIO Business Intelligence

There are many practical reasons driving this movement away from the data center as a hallmark of information technology. But for all the undeniable reasons driving the transition to the cloud, there are a few arguments that don’t fit the narrative, a few rationales for bucking the trend and keeping your own data center running.

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National Grid’s energy transformation is fueled by IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Being on what she calls the “frontier” of the global energy transformation may keep her up some nights, but it is “rewarding” beyond words, says Karaboutis, who will be speaking at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium next week. We’re very mature in our data architecture and what we want. Digital Transformation, Energy Industry

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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Salesforce’s AI Research team has also developed methods such as maximum parallelism, he adds, which split up compute-intensive tasks efficiently to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.