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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO

Concerns that AI contributes to global warming stem from estimates that GPUs used to develop and keep AI models running use four times as much energy as those serving conventional cloud applications, and that AI could be on track to use as much electricity as Ireland. All those 13,000 new models didn’t require any pre-training,” he says.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

With 2022 now in our rearview mirror, we still reflect on a time marked by global upheavals, like the Russia – Ukraine war, to the skyrocketing energy prices and global inflation. As technology advances, so too does the sophistication of threats to these essential systems.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

Infogrid , a startup that uses AI to collect and analyze data on things like air quality, occupancy and energy consumption, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series B round led by Northzone and AO Proptech. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

CIO

Unlike that energy company, many organizations have yet to feel an urgency to capitalize on the value of their vast reservoirs of unstructured data. Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc.

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

CIO

Across the world, climate change has bitten hard into the economies of tech-centric California, again due to wildfires. Food and water insecurity will increase, and energy systems, housing stock, insurance, and currency markets will all become more volatile—a worrying set of scenarios for business leaders and boards.

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The human costs of the AI boom

TechCrunch

Recently, these platforms have become crucial for artificial intelligence (AI) companies to train their AI systems and ensure they operate correctly. Social networks hire platforms for content moderation. OpenAI is a client of Scale AI and Remotasks, labeling data for their apps ChatGPT and DALL-E.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO

SustainableIT.org recently released its first set of IT-based environmental, social and governance standards to provide CIOs with precise technical guidance about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce energy consumption. What the bigger cloud providers can do is negotiate better contracts with clean energy providers. “By