sustainability

Experts Grapple with AI’s Environmental Costs

AI algorithms have made tremendous progress in making many computational processes more efficient, but “efficiency” isn’t always the name of the game for the AI industry itself. Famously, a ...Full Article

IBM Joins Effort to Build $200M AI, Cloud, Quantum Discovery Accelerator at the University of Illinois

With demands for AI, hybrid cloud and quantum computing expanding daily, IBM is joining an initiative to build a Discovery Accelerator Institute at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana ...Full Article

Turning Trash Into Renewable Energy for the Datacenter

Renewable energy developer Vieste Energy is partnering with green building design firm ESD (Environmental Systems Design, Inc.) on a national portfolio of 100 percent renewable energy datacenters. Full Article

Opinion: Think Caring, not Persuasive, Technology

Green is a metaphor for a healthy environment, and greening entails activities to restore and maintain its health. Given its current poor health, virtually all greening is aimed at ...Full Article

An Interview with EMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer

Green Computing Report speaks with EMC's Chief Sustainability Officer Kathrin Winkler about the company's latest sustainability report, the major drivers for energy efficiency and a new way of thinking ...Full Article

CoolEmAll Releases Prototype Datacenter Design Tools

The European Commission-funded project CoolEmAll has released the first prototypes of advanced tools aimed at facilitating more energy-efficient datacenters. Full Article

Don’t Crash That Datacenter: Power Engineers Discuss Problems And Solutions For Efficient Power Systems

Whether retrofitting, expanding or creating a new datacenter, electrical systems are important in order to cut costs and become more environmentally sound. What are some typical problems and solutions? Six experts ...Full Article

Reshoring: A Path to Sustainable Manufacturing in America

<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17_-_2.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />The concept of sustainability is still a subject of many debates, including the debate over whether or not to define and adopt ...Full Article

The ‘Greenest Data Center In The World’?

Syracuse Univeristy hopes its trigeneration, micro-turbine, absorption chiller data center will inspire others to get sustainable. Built with assistance from IBM and the New York State Energy Research and ...Full Article

Is EBay’s Use of Fuel Cells the Start Of a New Era?

EBay's Quicksilver data center in Utah uses fuel cells from Bloom Energy as the main powersouce, with the grid as backup. Why? Just because it likes clean energy, and ...Full Article