Recently Jon Stewart did a segment poking satire at the promises of AI highlighted by tech CEOs. I don’t think automating your toasters is the best way to show the potential of AI, as Jon did, but I do agree with the central premise of his argument that disruption caused by AI will be harnessed …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In the episode, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder interviewed University of Oxford data scientist Hannah Ritchie, whose book “Not the End of the World” offers an optimistic take on how the world can win its battle against climate change. Gates asked Ritchie for her “top questions” to ask a time traveler from the future. Her response: …
Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight to reflect human-made global catastrophes. The Doomsday Clock was updated today and has been left at 90 seconds to midnight, similar to what it was last year reflecting a “continuing and unprecedented level of risk”. This comes at a time when humanity is in the most danger it has …
Artificial intelligence could be used to prevent planes from creating planet-warming condensation trails, or contrails, according to a new study. Exactly how much impact contrails have on global warming is still being studied, but one recent study found the feathery streaks in the sky can trap enough heat to account for about 35% of the aviation …