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Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents

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Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated tasks, like analyzing a video and answering questions about it.But the way these highly fragmented systems are designed and deployed often causes inefficiencies that can lead to wasted computation, energy, and cost. To improve efficiency, researchers from MIT […]

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Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable

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The rise of artificial intelligence is riding on the back of an enormous data center expansion. Data centers are projected to account for anywhere from 9 to 17 percent of total electricity usage in the U.S. by the end of the decade. Today, around a third of data center electricity is devoted to cooling the

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How E.ON uses SAP S/4HANA to modernise the grid with AI

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Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, and energy infrastructure solutions. Maintaining operations across this scope requires continuous capital expenditure on IT hardware and software maintenance. Leadership initially questioned the business case supporting large-scale

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China’s AI just mapped its entire renewable energy grid. Here’s why the rest of the world should pay attention

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Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that grids were never designed to handle. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the country’s largest grid operator, have risen more than tenfold in two years, with data-centre growth identified as a primary driver.

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A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

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Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12 percent of total U.S. electricity by 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Improving data center energy efficiency is one way scientists are striving to make AI more sustainable.Toward that goal, researchers from MIT and the

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Reflecting on 50 years of environmental innovation

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As we celebrate our 50th anniversary, this Earth Day carries special meaning for us at SAS. For me, it’s also a moment to step back and evaluate what has worked and what it really takes to sustain environmental progress over time. Reflecting on five decades of environmental stewardship, we didn’t […] The post Reflecting on

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How data helps protect climate displaced communities in Uganda

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Most powerful stories begin with people. For IOM Uganda, that means individuals and communities uprooted by disasters and climate-driven migration. Their work sits at the intersection of uncertainty, where movement, risk and response are constantly shifting, often without a clear picture of what’s happening in real time. When SAS Data […] The post How data

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Helping data centers deliver higher performance with less hardware

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To improve data center efficiency, multiple storage devices are often pooled together over a network so many applications can share them. But even with pooling, significant device capacity remains underutilized due to performance variability across the devices.MIT researchers have now developed a system that boosts the performance of storage devices by handling three major sources

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Working to advance the nuclear renaissance

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Today, there are 94 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, and these units collectively provide nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. That is a major accomplishment, according to Dean Price, but he believes that our country needs much more out of nuclear energy, especially

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