Kathryn Van Nuys Amazon Web Services For climate startups focused on cutting-edge science and in need of costly high-performance computing power, just producing a proof of concept (POC) is a long slog. That’s where Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) new Computer for Climate Fellowship comes in. A joint initiative with UNESCO, it funds entrepreneurs working in …
An ancient practice is getting an assist from modern technology thanks to nonprofit architecture and urban design research group Terreform One. While the results might seem “strange,” as outlined by Fast Company, they are equally beautiful and intriguing as developers eye cleaner ways of building living spaces and other structures. For architect Mitchell Joachim, this …
One scorching day this past September, I made the dangerous decision to try to circumnavigate some data centers. The ones I chose sit between a regional airport and some farm fields in Goodyear, Arizona, half an hour’s drive west of downtown Phoenix. When my Uber pulled up beside the unmarked buildings, the temperature was 97 …
Tech giants are racing to ward off a carbon time bomb caused by the massive data centers they’re building around the world. A technique pioneered by Google is gaining currency as more power-hungry artificial intelligence comes online: Using software to hunt for clean electricity in parts of the world with excess sun and wind on the grid, then ramping …