Tag: environmental
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Cloud Blog: Google Pixel phones achieve DoDIN APL Certification: Secure, mission-ready mobile technology for federal agencies
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-pixel-phones-achieve-dodin-apl-certification-secure-mission-ready-mobile-technology-for-federal-agencies/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Pixel phones achieve DoDIN APL Certification: Secure, mission-ready mobile technology for federal agencies Feedly Summary: In today’s complex and ever-evolving threat landscape, federal agencies require secure, reliable, and innovative solutions to fulfill their critical missions. Google Pixel phones have been added to the Department of Defense Information…
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Slashdot: Hugging Face Researchers Warn AI-Generated Video Consumes Much More Power Than Expected
Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/27/0249201/hugging-face-researchers-warn-ai-generated-video-consumes-much-more-power-than-expected?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hugging Face Researchers Warn AI-Generated Video Consumes Much More Power Than Expected Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The findings from researchers at Hugging Face reveal that generative AI tools for text-to-video production have a significantly larger carbon footprint than expected. The study highlights a non-linear increase…
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New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : This Town’s Minerals Make A.I. Possible. Then Came Hurricane Helene.
Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/ai-quartz-mining-hurricane-helene.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: This Town’s Minerals Make A.I. Possible. Then Came Hurricane Helene. Feedly Summary: Spruce Pine, N.C., supplies the world’s highest-purity quartz, a mineral that keeps the A.I. revolution afloat. What are the consequences? AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the critical role…
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The Register: DARPA amps up effort to make AI power-conscious
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/dapra_ai_power_conscious/ Source: The Register Title: DARPA amps up effort to make AI power-conscious Feedly Summary: New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw It’s notoriously difficult to consistently measure the energy usage of AI models, but DARPA wants to put an end to that uncertainty with new “energy-aware" machine…
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Scott Logic: Greener AI – what matters, what helps, and what we still do not know
Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/09/16/greener-ai-lit-review.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Greener AI – what matters, what helps, and what we still do not know Feedly Summary: We recently undertook a literature review about the environmental impact of AI, across carbon, energy, and water. It offers practical strategies for teams to reduce impact today, while highlighting the gaps in…
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Cloud Blog: Our approach to carbon-aware data centers: Central data center fleet management
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/googles-approach-to-carbon-aware-data-center/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Our approach to carbon-aware data centers: Central data center fleet management Feedly Summary: Data centers are the engines of the cloud, processing and storing the information that powers our daily lives. As digital services grow, so do our data centers and we are working to responsibly manage them.…
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Scott Logic: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens
Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/09/09/reading-the-gentle-singularity-through-a-sustainability-lens.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens Feedly Summary: Sam Altman says AI will cost as little as electricity—but what’s the real environmental impact of billions of queries a day? In this post I dig into the numbers from the blog post “The Gentle Singularity" and compare…
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Cloud Blog: Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/manufacturing/tata-steel-enhances-equipment-and-operations-monitoring-with-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine Feedly Summary: Tata Steel is one of the world’s largest steel producers, with an annual crude steel capacity exceeding 35 millions tons. With such a large and global output, we needed a way to improve asset…