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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

CIO

British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. From a sustainability perspective, utilizing a cloud platform unlocks the company’s data and its value chain’s data end-to-end,” Burion says. “We

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A Wake-Up Call For Sustainable AI Data Centers

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To handle that growing demand, data center experts estimate a need for 18 to 30 gigawatts of new capacity over the next five to seven years in the United States alone, and our current infrastructure may not be equipped to handle this surge. Data centers use around 40% of their power allocation globally on inefficient cooling infrastructures.

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

CIO

Sustainability is a major priority in business boardrooms already, and pressures from regulators, shareholders, board members and employees are likely to further drive this trend. There is a clear company risk in not being sustainable, both to the planet and to the business. Businesses need to do more than just track carbon output.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

CIO

In this conversation with Foundry, Kopal dives deep into her career progression, the challenges of marrying manufacturing with digitization and WABTEC’s commitment to sustainability. Initially, I was naïve about the infrastructure space, but was fortunate to have a great mentor. What does sustainability look like for WABTEC ?

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change.

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

TechCrunch

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. We wanted to make the shrimp business more sustainable and more efficient without destroying the environment,” Russek said. “We million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. With just over a 1.5%

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