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Some AI Prompts Generate 50 Times More Carbon Emissions Than Others

Whether you use OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, or any other chatbot, every prompt you type triggers a chain of activity behind the scenes. A data center somewhere works a ...Full Article

Google Struggles to Meet Sustainability Goals Amid AI Expansion

Google has an ambitious goal to reduce its carbon emissions to net zero by the year 2030. This would require cutting its carbon emissions in half compared to its ...Full Article

Compute for Climate Fellowship Announces Inaugural Winners and Opens Applications for 2024

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, March 21, 2024 — The International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI), an organization under the auspices of UNESCO, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced the first cohort ...Full Article

SoftIron Measures Its Carbon Footprint to Make a Point

Since its founding in 2012, London-based software-defined storage provider SoftIron has been making its case for what it calls secure provenance: a term that encompasses the company’s rigorous accounting ...Full Article

The Environmental and Economic Benefits of Knowing Your IT Carbon Footprint

Whether because of rising energy costs, an increase in media coverage on global warming and climate change, or a host of other possible reasons, green IT has been gaining ...Full Article

UK Government Assists Datacenter CO2 Reduction

A consortium led by Cambridge-based startup Alquist has been awarded almost £1 million in UK government funding to help datacenters reduce their carbon footprint. Full Article

Greenpeace Activists Troll Amazon In Attempt to Make AWS Cleaner

<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">The environmental organization creates “green amazon web services” website promising to make AWS the greenest in the world. The site got a lot of attention at ...Full Article