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Tag: Sustainable Practices

  • Scott Logic: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens

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    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…

  • AWS News Blog: Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-new-zealand-region/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region Feedly Summary: AWS has launched its first New Zealand Region with three Availability Zones, marking its 16th Region in Asia Pacific and enabling local data residency for New Zealand organizations. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • The Register: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/climate_change_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over Feedly Summary: A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants Many of the world’s top 100 datacenter hubs are at risk from rising global temperatures, as growing cooling requirements push up costs and water consumption, while shutdowns…

  • Scott Logic: GenAI sustainability: a review of the 2025 numbers

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/07/09/genai-sustainability-a-review-of-the-2025-numbers.html Source: Scott Logic Title: GenAI sustainability: a review of the 2025 numbers Feedly Summary: A year after predicting GenAI’s sustainability crisis, the 2024/25 financial data tells a concerning story. OpenAI’s $10 billion revenue comes with $5 billion losses, whilst Anthropic burns $3-4 billion annually. With the sector consuming over $100 billion in…

  • Slashdot: Tech Giants’ Indirect Emissions Rose 150% In Three Years

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/2154202/tech-giants-indirect-emissions-rose-150-in-three-years Source: Slashdot Title: Tech Giants’ Indirect Emissions Rose 150% In Three Years Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent United Nations report highlighting the significant increase in indirect carbon emissions from leading AI-focused tech companies due to their energy-intensive data centers. As investments in AI grow,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Sam Altman

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/10/sam-altman/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Sam Altman Feedly Summary: (People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes.…

  • The Register: Oracle’s $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI’s Abilene, Texas DC to handle

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/oracle_openai_40b/ Source: The Register Title: Oracle’s $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI’s Abilene, Texas DC to handle Feedly Summary: 400,000 of Nvidia’s GB200 Superchips are gonna need a bit more than 1.2GW of datacenter capacity Oracle will reportedly shell out around $40 billion on Nvidia’s most advanced GPUs to…

  • Cloud Blog: Unlock software delivery excellence and quality with Gemini Code Assist agents

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/read-doras-latest-research-on-software-excellence/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unlock software delivery excellence and quality with Gemini Code Assist agents Feedly Summary: According to DORA’s latest research – the Impact of Generative AI in Software Development report – AI tools are making software developers feel more productive, focused, and satisfied. They’re even writing better code and documentation…