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Building sustainability at the edge of the enterprise

CIO

The enterprise edge has become a growing area of innovation as organizations increasingly understand that not every workload — particularly new edge workloads — can move to the cloud. Generating business value from this data will require significant growth in edge computing deployments.

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Tractor Supply enlists AI to deliver ‘legendary’ customer service

CIO

With Hey GURA, a store employee can immediately call up product specs, such as the amount of hot air the PelPro Pellet Stove can move per minute, without seeking out a computer terminal. If a customer is browsing alone in the garden center, the Computer Vision AI can alert an employee with gardening expertise to meet the customer there.

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The critical role of the network in sustainability, security and AI

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Generative AI is presenting new challenges because its vast datasets require immense computing power and storage. High-speed, low-latency networks help meet these computational demands, facilitating the fast and reliable connectivity that is crucial for AI processing. Copper is a rare earth metal and has to be mined and refined.

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Gen AI without the risks

CIO

On top of that, Gen AI, and the large language models (LLMs) that power it, are super-computing workloads that devour electricity.Estimates vary, but Dr. Sajjad Moazeni of the University of Washington calculates that training an LLM with 175 billion+ parameters takes a year’s worth of energy for 1,000 US households. Learn more.

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Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers

TechCrunch

Ever since we launched Qarnot 12 years ago, our goal has been to valorize fatal heat from computers. Today, it’s a hot topic and there are a lot of people talking about it,” co-founder and CEO Paul Benoit told me. Up to 95% of computer waste heat is turned into hot water. Edge computing is slowly showing up.

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The 4 most overhyped technologies in IT

CIO

With technology and tech news now both pervasive and mainstream, many outside of IT — from veteran board members to college-age interns — are equally enthusiastic about bleeding-edge technologies. Here’s what they say on the topic. Yet it’s anyone’s guess when, exactly, this new type of computing will become operational.

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Cloud native platforms: To build or to buy?

CIO

Defining a cloud native platform The Platforms Working Group at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has a great paper defining “platform.” You use it to standardize your infrastructure across clouds, across on-premises, and even “edge,” so that you can then build your application-focused platform. Cloud Computing

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