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New Project: From Sustainable Smartphones to Green Data Centres—Solutions for Sustainable Digitalisation

The raw materials in our devices, the energy required to produce them, the electricity required for use—our digital world is leading to an enormous consumption of resources. The global AI hype is exacerbating the problem even further, as is impressively demonstrated by the race for energy sources for data centres. According to various calculations, CO2

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How Can the Energy Guzzler That’s AI Become More Sustainable? Interview With Friederike Rohde (Iöw)

Artificial intelligence has a large CO2 footprint. Renewable energies alone will not solve the problem, says Friederike Rohde.

Deep Green Data Centres Heat Swimming Pools in the “Perfect Symbiotic Relationship”

Deep Green uses waste heat from its data centres to heat swimming pools, reducing their carbon emissions and keeping them afloat as energy costs soar.

Utilising Waste Heat From Data Centres: How Our Browser Activity Could Soon Be Used to Heat Our Buildings

Data centres consume huge amounts of energy – and generate plenty of heat in the process. In Sweden, thousands of households are already heated with server heat. Could this be a potential source of clean energy?

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Digital Reset – New Report Calls for Fundamental Realignment of Digital Technologies

Digitalization, as it currently stands, exacerbates ecological and social crises. But digital technologies also offer the opportunity to put all sectors on a sustainable course. The report "Digital Reset" by TU Berlin and the Einstein Center Digital Future, shows how this can be achieved.

How Green Is Your Internet? Greenpeace’s Click Clean Campaign Provides Some Answers

What’s the status of renewable energy in the IT sector? The Click Clean Report 2017 takes a look at exactly this topic.

Keep Warm This Winter Using…Cloud Computing!

A Dutch company is looking to harness the excess heat generated by computer servers and use it to warm homes and buildings.