Nvidia plans digital twin of the Earth, generative AI weather forecasting
Recognizing threat of climate change, but is still targeting oil businesses
News - climate change
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Microsoft blames Azure West Europe networking issues on severe weather conditions
Storm cut fiber between two Dutch data centers
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Japanese designer proposes floating cities to survive climate change
N-Ark's concept website shows healthcare, farms and underwater data centers
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Internet Archive data center goes down due to PG&E power outage
Untimely downtime comes as nonprofit fights publishers in court
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Elon Musk says $10 trillion and 0.2% of the world's land could support a green, sustainable civilization
That would include 240TWh of battery energy storage and 30TWh of renewable power generation
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Subsea Internet cables are at risk from climate disasters
The world's digital infrastructure depends on fragile cables and landing stations
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"No credible pathway to 1.5°C in place," UN warns
We must do everything we can to remove emissions
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Twitter data center brought down by California's extreme heat wave
Climate change takes out another data center
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Texas asks high-energy users to power down due to heatwave, cryptominers comply
Everyone from residents to industrial-scale Bitcoin miners reduce usage
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President Biden cuts tax barriers on solar panel imports, while US manufacturers catch up
Tariffs designed to keep out Chinese solar panels are relaxed for two years
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EirGrid pulls plug on 30 Irish data center projects
Grid manager cancels planning proposals due to electricity curbs
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Tech firms' investments create more emissions than all their other activities
Google, PayPal and others claim to be carbon neutral, but pump millions of investment dollars into oil and gas
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Extreme weather causes outages in the US and Australia
Effects of climate change also impacted connectivity in Scotland
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US megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years, exacerbated by climate change
At the same time, we are using water more than ever before - including to cool data centers
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Nvidia plans "most energy efficient supercomputer ever," will use it to build a digital twin of the Earth
Details are lacking about its Omniverse-themed Earth-2 system
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Microsoft and Total partner, explore using large batteries instead of diesel genset
Plus Total will use Azure and Microsoft 365
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Shopify becomes first customer of Carbon Engineering's carbon removal service
But significant limitations exist before this can be embraced at scale
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Evoque, Equinix, DataBank, and more weather Texas storm
Companies maintain uptime during state emergency
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IBM promises to be net zero by 2030
Historic IT company pledges renewable initiatives, but maintains large oil contracts
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DCD>Energy Smart: Data centers will be vital in the fight against climate change
Stockholm’s mayor says Covid-19 can't distract us from the environment
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Aligned Energy to match 100 percent of its IT load with renewable energy
Aligning with the science of climate change
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The EU wants data centers to be carbon neutral by 2030
Along with wider telecoms infrastructure
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UK Met Office promises £1.2bn for world’s most powerful weather and climate supercomputer
Amid storms, agency looks to the future
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Microsoft promises to be carbon negative by 2030
But will still sell Azure to Big Oil
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Google makes 1,600MW renewable energy purchase
The biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history
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IBM builds world’s most powerful commercial supercomputer for Total
To help with profitable fossil fuel extraction