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Subspace Labs raises funding for a more scalable, sustainable blockchain

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New projects are aiming to tackle issues like notoriously high energy use, hefty gas fees and low transaction throughput that are plaguing some of the major blockchain networks. are more scalable than their older counterparts, they still make security and decentralization tradeoffs inherent to the proof-of-stake system.

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Malta’s energy storage tech to stabilize electricity grids reliant on renewables gets $50 million

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As energy grids transition away from fossil fuels and toward the use of zero emission sources of power from primarily renewable energy sources, they’re going to need an ability to store and then use the massive amounts of energy that’s only generated intermittently by the sun and wind.

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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

CIO

And the importance of energy efficiency for enterprise IT cannot be overstated. With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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ASUS unveils powerful, cost-effective AI servers based on modular design

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That architecture lets ASUS servers exploit the latest NVIDIA advances in GPUs, CPUs, NVME storage, and PCIe Gen5 interfaces. Advanced cooling options Liquid cooling has become the energy-efficient, scalable solution to AI systems’ high heat output. These include preconfigured settings for varying workloads and benchmarks.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

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For example, Arm platforms, like the Graviton3 offered on AWS, are growing in popularity because they are priced attractively, are energy-efficient, and have the flexibility to perform well in the cloud. Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage The math is simple: Fewer cloud computing resources = lower cloud costs.

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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

TechCrunch

In contrast to the “volatile” memory prevalent in today’s computers, non-volatile memory can retain data without a continuous power supply, making it theoretically more energy efficient. Flash memory and most magnetic storage devices, including hard disks and floppy disks, are examples of non-volatile memory.

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