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From public sources: Open Climate Fix reports that Quartz Solar halved large forecast errors compared with NESO's previous tools, and estimates it saves at least £30 million a year in balancing costs and about 300,000 tonnes of CO2. These figures come from...
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From public sources: DeepMind reported cooling energy savings of up to 40%, which works out to about a 15% cut in total energy overhead once other losses are counted. The authors noted that every data center is built differently, so a model tuned for one...
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From public sources: Open Climate Fix reports up to an 8% gain in forecast accuracy for Indian state operators when tested on historical wind data, and an average 13% cut in imbalance penalties for Adani Green. The partners say these test results still...
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From public sources: Microsoft reported a failure rate underwater of about one-eighth of a matching set of servers on land. The team's leading explanation was the sealed nitrogen atmosphere, which corrodes less than air, and the absence of people bumping...
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From public sources: in 2024 a Microsoft executive told DatacenterDynamics the experiment worked but that the company was not building undersea data centers, and would apply what it learned about operations and vibration elsewhere. A successful pilot is...
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From public sources: comparing satellite images from 2017 to 2021 with ship-tracking broadcasts, the team found about 75% of industrial fishing vessels and over 25% of transport and energy vessels were missing from public tracking. Not all boats are...
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Electricity Maps maintains an open-source collection of programs, written with volunteer contributors, that gather electricity production, imports and exports from official sources around the...
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Rainforest Connection, a nonprofit, places solar-powered listening devices called Guardians in forests. AI picks out the sounds of chainsaws and other threats, such as poaching, and alerts nearby...
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