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Deal Dive: Training the workforce for the clean energy transition

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Montamo hires and trains people to work in the clean energy transition with an emphasis on helping migrants build a new career. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

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Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. Energy crisis.

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The Key Role of the Release Train Engineer in Power Grid Companies: Spearheading Agile Transformation in the Energy Transition

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In today’s rapidly evolving energy landscape, power grid companies play a pivotal role in facilitating the smooth and efficient distribution of electricity to consumers. In this context, the RTE emerges as a linchpin, orchestrating the agile release trains and aligning them with the organization’s overall strategic objectives.

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Home energy assessment startup Enter raises €19.4M Series A to expand in Germany and beyond

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Most were built for an era when the knowledge about energy consumption just wasn’t available in the way it is today. With energy becoming more expensive, and energy security ratcheting-up as a geopolitical issue, tech startups looking at this problem have been proliferating. Home energy assessment startup Enter raises €19.4M

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Tesla, SpaceX alums stalk energy sector’s white whale with $2 million seed round

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Hydrogen has been the decarbonized energy sector’s white whale. From cars and trucks to planes, trains and even household boilers, the universe’s lightest gas isn’t short on possible applications. Wildly abundant and highly versatile, it has long had the potential to decarbonize entire sectors of the economy.

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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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Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany

CIO

The company also wants to train more than 1.2 When building the new data centers, Microsoft is also paying attention to the sustainability aspect and investing in renewable energies. “We Microsoft’s education offensive When it comes to digital training, Microsoft is relying on its partner network. Microsoft will invest €3.2

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