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Bringing jobs and health benefits, BlocPower unlocks energy efficiency retrofits for low-income communities

TechCrunch

Retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient and better at withstanding climate change-induced extreme weather is going to be a big, multibillion-dollar business. billion for new energy initiatives. New stimulus bill includes $35.2 Using that digital twin the company can identify what upgrades a building needs.

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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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Salesforce plans generative AI boost for ESG reporting with Net Zero Cloud

CIO

Generative AI will soon be everywhere — including in Salesforce’s Net Zero Cloud environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting tool. Net Zero Cloud uses data held within the Salesforce platform to help enterprises report on their carbon footprint and manage other social and governance metrics.

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HP’s focus on sustainability runs far and deep

CIO

With environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations coming into force and reputations at stake, organisations are under mounting pressure to make credible progress towards sustainability goals. Ultimately, the company is on a mission to become net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040. cubic metres in 2021.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

CIO

To help CIOs figure out what they should be doing with the metaverse, I queried a select group of CXOs at large enterprises about their metaverse plans and immersed myself for several weeks digesting and synthesizing as much information as possible on the topic, including a series of exercises I posed on various social media platforms.

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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. Cybercriminals specifically target sectors such as healthcare, energy, and transportation, recognizing the significant consequences at stake.

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How companies are innovating in the energy sector

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

An integral component of our everyday lives, energy powers almost everything at home, at work, and elsewhere and has a direct impact on the standard of living. With people using over a million terajoules of energy a day (Source: BBC Future), burning of coal, oil and gas has reached record levels. every year till we hit 2040.

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