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IT can play a major role in driving sustainability

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With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand , IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals. This inaction means a lot of money and energy is being wasted unnecessarily. Deep visibility.

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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.

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CIOs weigh where to place AI bets — and how to de-risk them

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We need to be ready to respond to our CEO to solve problems with AI,” says Srini Gudipati, CIO of Covanta, a company that specializes in sustainable materials management, including large-scale recycling. Given existing relationships with Webster Bank, that includes AWS and Microsoft. “AI moves fast, so we don’t want to delay.

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

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More recently, the company launched Carbon Pathfinder, an AI-driven sustainability software planning tool that is sold as SaaS or a suite with professional services. “AI JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators.

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Teraco and VMware are Taking a New Approach to Support the Efforts of South Africa’s Cloud Innovators in Their Quest to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions

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Among them is the simple reality that most of the nation’s power production originates from coal-fired plants located in the northeastern part of the country while the greatest potential impact for sustainable approaches like solar and wind lie in the south. We have to do something now.

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

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Meanwhile, through 2017 and 2018, he says, “there was a big surge in companies moving from usually on-premises data centers to AWS or Azure, and then finding a partner to run their SAP in the cloud. There’s a sustainability aspect to why they picked Lemongrass and AWS too. “If It was costing us a lot of money.”

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Google Sustainability Efforts in the Cloud Now Claim to be “Carbon Intelligent”

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Google Sustainability is an effort that ranges across their business, from the Global Fishing Watch to environmental consciousness in the supply chain. Given that cloud computing has been a major draw of global energy in recent years, the amount of computing done in data centers more than quintupled between 2010 and 2018.