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| Stuff.co.nz - 17 May (Stuff.co.nz)From a market stall to bricks and mortar, a new business in Timaru’s CBD aims to promote the beauty of the South Island. Read...Newslink ©2024 to Stuff.co.nz | |
| | | PC World - 17 May (PC World)Technology giant Microsoft recently released its sustainability report for the 2023 financial year, and it didn’t exactly have positive numbers. Microsoft set a climate goal in 2020 to become carbon negative by 2030, sequestering more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it emits, but the company seems to be on the wrong track to achieve this goal. Microsoft’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 30 percent in the 2023 financial year — and it’s all Copilot’s fault.
The big culprit is the company’s huge AI investments. It takes huge amounts of energy to train and use AI models. The International Energy Agency expects energy consumption for data centers worldwide to increase from 460 TWh in 2022 to between 620 and 1,050 TWh by 2026, due to AI and cryptocurrency use. For context, Sweden’s total energy consumption in 2022 was approximately 508 TWh.
Microsoft CEO Brad Smith confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg that the previous climate goals are now much harder to reach, precisely because of AI.
“In 2020, we unveiled our ambitious carbon target. That was before the explosion in artificial intelligence. In many ways, we are now five times further away from reaching them than we were in 2020, if you just think about our own forecast for the expansion of AI and its electricity needs,” Smith said.
Further reading: Copilot Pro: What can Microsoft 365’s premium AI do?
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| | | RadioNZ - 16 May (RadioNZ)Farman Sediqi is having to pay more than $6000 after someone illegally dumped more than 1800 used tyres outside his store in Onehunga overnight. Read...Newslink ©2024 to RadioNZ | |
| | | ITBrief - 16 May (ITBrief)Endava report reveals AI and ESG as top digital priorities for business, emphasising technologies that offer immediate benefits amid tech sector uncertainty. Read...Newslink ©2024 to ITBrief | |
| | | Stuff.co.nz - 16 May (Stuff.co.nz)The dairy cooperative is looking to sell all or part of its `global consumer business` as it shifts its focus. Read...Newslink ©2024 to Stuff.co.nz | |
| | | RadioNZ - 16 May (RadioNZ)Tony Coleman only stopped working at 82 and wife Bev ran her own property business until she was 72, but they often can`t afford to eat Read...Newslink ©2024 to RadioNZ | |
| | | RadioNZ - 16 May (RadioNZ)The dairy cooperative is looking to sell all or part of its `global consumer business` as it shifts its focus. Read...Newslink ©2024 to RadioNZ | |
| | | ITBrief - 16 May (ITBrief)SolarWinds enhances DPA with AI insights, adding robust PostgreSQL support to streamline and de-risk enterprise database management, driving business success. Read...Newslink ©2024 to ITBrief | |
| | | ITBrief - 16 May (ITBrief)CCL, part of Spark Business Group, has reached VMware`s highest Pinnacle Tier, acknowledging their decade of exceptional IT and hybrid cloud services. Read...Newslink ©2024 to ITBrief | |
| | | Stuff.co.nz - 16 May (Stuff.co.nz)The multi-tasking involved with playing the bagpipes while marching with a band is all part of the fun for one Taranaki teenager. Read...Newslink ©2024 to Stuff.co.nz | |
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