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AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images The energy needed to support data storage is expected to double by 2026. In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global energy use over the next two years. None of these trade-offs is as important as in energy. You can do something to stop it.

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Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

Data Center Knowledge

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. To reduce complexity NVMKV eliminates the need to continually convert native key-value I/O to block I/O used in disk storage. Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage.

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Facebook and Carnegie Mellon launch project to discover better ways to store renewable energy

Venture Beast

Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University will use AI to search for electrocatalysts to enable scalable renewable energy storage. Read More.

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Generative AI readiness is shockingly low – these 5 tips will boost it

CIO Business Intelligence

Prepare the data through anonymizing, labeling and normalizing across data sources and create guardrails for governance, quality, integrity and security. Right-sizing models is also important, as larger models require more servers, storage and energy. High-quality data will be the oil that makes your models hum.

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Why AI and automation are critical for assuring smart services

TM Forum

Industrial sectors, including manufacturing, mining and energy production, are undergoing digital transformation to improve decision-making and to automate processes. Cloudification is essential for flexible placement and management through Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model for compute, network, and storage intensive IoT applications.

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Home Assistant Amber is a ready-to-use smart home platform

The Verge

Home Assistant Amber is a smart home hub for the free, open source home automation platform. Nabu Casa, the company behind the free, open-source software, has launched Home Assistant Amber, its first ready-to-use hub that can run Home Assistant software out of the box. The Amber hub also has an M.2 Image: Nabu Casa.

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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Concerns that AI contributes to global warming stem from estimates that GPUs used to develop and keep AI models running use four times as much energy as those serving conventional cloud applications, and that AI could be on track to use as much electricity as Ireland. Our theory is no. Think about how much computer and carbon that saved.”