Tag: sustainability practices
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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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Wired: How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-carbon-emissions-energy-unknown-mystery-research/ Source: Wired Title: How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying Feedly Summary: A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…
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The Register: AI to more than double global datacenter electricity use by 2030, say global policy wonks
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_double_datacenter_energy/ Source: The Register Title: AI to more than double global datacenter electricity use by 2030, say global policy wonks Feedly Summary: No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks Analysis Global datacenter electricity use is set to more than double by 2030 – slightly surpassing Japan’s total consumption…
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Cloud Blog: Harvesting hardware: Our approach to carbon-aware fleet deployment
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/hardware-harvesting-at-google-reducing-waste-and-emissions/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Harvesting hardware: Our approach to carbon-aware fleet deployment Feedly Summary: When it comes to managing the infrastructure and AI that powers Google’s products and platforms – from Search to YouTube to Google Cloud – every decision we make has an impact. Traditionally, meeting growing demands for machine capacity…
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Cloud Blog: Harvesting hardware: Our approach to carbon-aware fleet deployment
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/hardware-harvesting-at-google-reducing-waste-and-emissions/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Harvesting hardware: Our approach to carbon-aware fleet deployment Feedly Summary: When it comes to managing the infrastructure and AI that powers Google’s products and platforms – from Search to YouTube to Google Cloud – every decision we make has an impact. Traditionally, meeting growing demands for machine capacity…
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Cloud Blog: How Google Cloud measures its climate impact through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/google-cloud-measures-its-climate-impact-through-life-cycle-assessment/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Google Cloud measures its climate impact through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Feedly Summary: As AI creates opportunities for business growth and societal benefits, we’re working to reduce their carbon intensity through efforts like optimizing software, improving hardware efficiency, and supporting our operations with carbon-free energy. At Google,…
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AlgorithmWatch: Fighting the Power Deficiency: The AI Energy Crisis
Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/explainer-ai-energy-consumption/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: Fighting the Power Deficiency: The AI Energy Crisis Feedly Summary: Is AI contributing to solving the climate crisis or to making it worse? Either way, the increase in AI applications goes hand in hand with the need for additional data centers, for which energy resources are currently lacking. AI…