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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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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. Thankfully, as new dangers arise, we also see the emergence of groundbreaking technologies that can help us combat them.

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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. So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. But Spain’s predicament isn’t unique.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

CIO

Now that organizations have returned to a new (somewhat) normal, CIOs appear to be focused on getting back to basics — and untangling tech debt incurred in making it through the past few years. Recruiting, retainment, and yes, adoption of lead-edge technology, are back on the radar of IT leaders. How do we get the talent we need?

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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. After all, we in the information management and technology industry have talked at length about unstructured data since “Big Data” was big news more than a decade ago.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.