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Infomaniak waste heat re-use
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“A Matter of Vision and Planning”: How Infomaniak Sets the Standard for Waste Heat Re-Use in Data Centres

Data centres require huge amounts of energy—but reusing their waste heat to warm our homes is a massive opportunity. Infomaniak shows us how it's done.

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Worried About GenAI’s Carbon Footprint? How To Use Language Models More Efficiently

AI chatbots enrich our everyday lives, but at a high cost to the planet. We show you how to use language models more efficiently.

Renewable Energy and Waste Heat Re-Use: Supercomputer MeluXina’s Strategies for Green, Fast Computing Power

Our modern world relies on carbon-emitting supercomputers. Enter: MeluXina, a supercomputer setting the standard for green computing power.

Ecologits Estimates Resource Consumption of Language Models

How many resources do AI chatbots consume? While Big Tech remains silent on energy, water and resource consumption, French non-profit company GenAI Impact is trying to provide estimates.

Are There Sustainable Language Models? Three Perspectives From the Current Debate on AI and GenAI

Will AI save the climate? Or are applications like ChatGPT just CO2 guzzlers? We take a look at three perspectives on language models.

A New Recycling Milestone? Trinasolar May Have the Solution for the Solar Cell Circular Economy

Chinese solar giant Trinasolar has produced the first 100 percent recycled photovoltaic module, reducing electronic waste from solar panels.

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How Can Energy Guzzling 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.

How Digitalisation Can Help Neighbourhoods Share Electricity

More players in the market are key to driving the shift away from fossil fuels — and digitalisation plays an important role. However, digital technologies themselves are also energy-hungry. But there are ways to keep the additional energy consumption low.

Report on the Price of Fossil Fuels Suggests a Rapid Transition to Renewables Can Result in Huge Savings

A study examining the historic prices of fossil fuels and renewable technologies suggests coal, oil and gas might not actually be as cheap as commonly thought.