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Balancing latency and sustainability

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Today’s enterprises face a mandate to make their operations more sustainable, from customers and regulators alike. In the Equinix 2023 Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS), 68% of global IT leaders said that the environmental impact of their IT equipment and infrastructure is something they measure and actively try to limit.

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4 paths to sustainable AI

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Credit rating agencies and customers are paying closer attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues such as carbon emissions, says Faith Taylor, VP of global sustainability and ESG officer at global infrastructure services provider Kyndryl. All those 13,000 new models didn’t require any pre-training,” he says.

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5 steps for making tech ethics work for your company

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Generative AI breakthroughs over the past year have crystalized a significant issue that IT leaders have long been aware of but few have addressed programmatically: tech ethics. Confronted with the prospect of destroying civilization, tech leaders have proposed two paths: moratoria on development or legislative regulation.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Companies across industries are committing to maximizing sustainability within their operations — and IT is at the heart of most of these efforts. In its Worldwide Sustainability/ESG 2023 Predictions , analyst firm IDC sees digital and sustainability transformations converging. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

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Across the world, climate change has bitten hard into the economies of tech-centric California, again due to wildfires. There is a need and realization by the business world to be more environmentally sustainable since organizations are seeing an impact on the bottom line as a direct result of climate change.

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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

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British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. Before we were quite fragmented across different technologies. Much of our digital agenda is around data.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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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.