Climate Change

School of Engineering and Computing Awarded $400,000 Grant for Disaster Resilience Research Fairfield University News

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School of Engineering and Computing Awarded 0,000 Grant for Disaster Resilience Research Fairfield University News

The research aims to develop a framework for monitoring mine tailings impoundments following exposure to extreme weather events.   Fairfield University’s School of Engineering and Computing, along with a collaborator from The University of Mississippi, has been awarded a grant of nearly $400,000 from the National Science Foundation. Each year, communities are experiencing an increase …

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The Future Of Climate Could Be In Quantum Computing

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The Future Of Climate Could Be In Quantum Computing

Quantum computing has a number of advantages over other technologies in terms of accelerating our progress with reducing climate change. For example, it can solve optimization problems significantly faster than regular computers. This makes it possible to do things like real-time climate predictions and designing materials on tiny scales. In these ways and others, quantum …

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Oracle Cloud Service enables banks to manage climate change risk across portfolios

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Oracle Cloud Service enables banks to manage climate change risk across portfolios

Financial institutions are under increased pressure from regulatory bodies to understand their environmental footprint and that of the companies they finance or invest in, otherwise known as financed emissions. To help banks better assess climate risk Oracle today announced Oracle Climate Change Analytics Cloud Service. With built-in AI, the new reporting and analytics solution is …

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Letters: Emulate ex-workers | AI’s promise

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Letters: Emulate ex-workers | AI’s promise

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Caltrain engineersshould be emulated Re: “Though some applaud ex-Caltrain officials who built secret apartments, prosecutors call it a crime” (Page B1, April 3). Mayor Mahan might consider hiring Joe Navarro and Seth Worden to lead his shelter and low-cost housing …

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Climate Change: Apple’s Tim Cook says AI essential tool for businesses to reduce carbon footprint

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Climate Change: Apple’s Tim Cook says AI essential tool for businesses to reduce carbon footprint

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said artificial intelligence is an essential tool for helping businesses reduce their carbon footprint, as he joined a climate change dialogue Sunday at the China Development Forum. Cook took part in a discussion at the annual Beijing event as the culmination of a week of public displays of …

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The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I.

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The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I.

In 2016, Alex de Vries read somewhere that a single bitcoin transaction consumes as much energy as the average American household uses in a day. At the time, de Vries, who is Dutch, was working at a consulting firm. In his spare time, he wrote a blog, called Digiconomist, about the risks of investing in …

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Dirty Looks pioneers eco-friendly film rendering with Deep Green

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Dirty Looks pioneers eco-friendly film rendering with Deep Green

Dirty Looks, a post-production company based in London, has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Deep Green. This marks the first instance in the UK of high-quality film being rendered using the novel heat-reuse data centre technology. This innovative data centre technology plays a key role in reducing environmental impact by reusing the heat generated by …

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AI Is Taking Water From the Arizona Desert

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AI Is Taking Water From the Arizona Desert

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 …

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AI forces data centers to use more energy. Software can help

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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 …

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