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EU moves toward regulating data center energy and water use

CIO

By comparison, 1 megawatt of power is enough to power 750 to 1,000 homes for a year. A hyperscale data center can use up to 200 million gallons of water per year to cool its hardware, and nearly all that water evaporates, making it impossible to recycle. Even a small data center can use six to seven million gallons per year.

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Smartphone sales to rebound on AI gains, Morgan Stanley says

TechCrunch

in 2025, shrugging off comparisons […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Smartphone sales will mount a comeback starting in 2024, defying growing warnings of a prolonged slump across the mobile sector, according to separate projections by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reviewed by TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

CIO

In comparison, a multicloud-by-design model helps overcome the challenges that may arise while operating a multicloud environment. Multicloud by Design: Making Multicloud Simple Many organisations ended up using multicloud by adopting various cloud platforms in a piecemeal manner which can lead to a siloed and complex IT environment.

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Terra raises $2.8M to build the Plaid for fitness data

TechCrunch

The company’s APIs allow developers to hook into fitness and health data generated by software and hardware. TechCrunch was curious about third-party hesitancy regarding allowing Terra to plug into various health, and fitness tech hardware and software. Terra expects to staff up to 10 people inside the quarter.

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Minimizing the negative impact of IT through design and circularity

CIO

On average, our products are designed to give you a minimum useful life of 10 years—5 years availability in-market, and 5 years of hardware warranty and software support.

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EC2 Instance Types Comparison (and how to remember them)

ParkMyCloud

f1 instances offer customizable hardware acceleration with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) – hence the “f”. If you have comparison questions around pricing, run them through the AWS monthly calculator. Microsoft Azure VM Types Comparison. g4 is the latest family, and g3 are available as well. F1 instance type.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: WayRay’s $80M Series C deck

TechCrunch

A few years ago, AR car hardware company WayRay raised $80 million at a half-a-billion valuation in a Series C round led by Porsche, and I’m super excited to show off their pitch deck today! WayRay Team — Hardware Engineering team slide. We have quite a unique pitch deck on our hands today. AR Marketplace — For the passenger.