Amazon’s accounting of its carbon footprint includes emissions generated by its own offices and data centers, purchased electricity, tailpipe emissions and more. Amazon aims to become a “net zero” emitter of greenhouse gases by 2040.
Andrew Fanara joins DEEP as head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, bringing a world of data center sustainability knowledge from his time at ENERGY STAR.
DeepMind has let its AI system manage the temperature controls inside Google data centers, shaving huge chunks off the company’s electricity bill. Phaidra is hoping to bring that technology to power plants and other industrial giants.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft are some of the world’s biggest supporters of clean energy. That’s not stopping the data center giants from pushing back on a huge wind and solar project.
The first and most obvious application for Google’s AI is to better understand what the utility might expect from wind patterns in the future. This is fundamentally about averting risk.
Google is selling the service through its cloud division, which is trying to lure clients with tools for managing energy usage and reducing emissions. Early tests on Google’s data centers improved the value of wind energy by 20 percent.