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Google X's 'moonshot factory' has recently announced the independent development of a new startup, Heritable Agriculture. This new company aims to improve the way crops grow using data and machine learning technologies. Heritable Agriculture stated in a press release that plants are efficient and astonishing systems: 'Plants are solar-powered, carbon-negative self-assembling machines that rely on sunlight and water to thrive.' However, agriculture puts immense pressure on the Earth and its resources.

At the recent annual re:Invent conference held in Las Vegas, Amazon's cloud computing service AWS announced a series of new technologies, highlighting the energy efficiency improvements of its data centers, achieving efficiency levels over four times greater than traditional on-premises computing. AWS head Prasad Kalyanaraman stated that these innovations not only enhance energy efficiency but also flexibly support emerging workloads. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed by service provider Midj.

Recently, an analysis by The Guardian revealed that there may be serious misleading practices by tech companies in handling the environmental impact of their AI data centers. The emission data reported by tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple significantly diverges from reality. According to this analysis, the actual emissions from these companies are 662% higher than the figures they officially disclose, and this is just the tip of the iceberg, as this study only covers data from 2020 to 2022. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Midjou.

A study commissioned by Amazon Web Services (AWS) reveals that using AWS data centers for compute-intensive or artificial intelligence (AI) workloads results in a significant 98% reduction in carbon emissions compared to on-premises data centers. Accenture's research indicates that migrating IT workloads to cloud data centers is an effective strategy to minimize environmental footprints. AWS's global infrastructure is 4.1 times more efficient than on-premises data centers, and Indian organizations have the potential to achieve a 99% reduction in carbon emissions by optimizing AI workloads on AWS. This is attributed to AWS's hardware utilization.

According to The Guardian, Google's increasing reliance on energy-intensive data centers to support its new artificial intelligence products is at risk of undermining its goal of reducing its carbon footprint. Data released by Google on Tuesday showed that its greenhouse gas emissions have grown by 48% over the past five years. The company attributes the growth to the energy consumption of data centers and supply chain emissions. In its annual environmental report, Google also revealed that emis

Scientists at the University of Surrey in the UK have successfully used artificial intelligence technology to adjust the systems of coal power plants, achieving a 36.3% reduction in power consumption and increased CO2 capture. Through predictive modeling, the system can real-time reduce the use of water pumps based on CO2 supply reductions or renewable energy shortages, thus improving carbon capture efficiency. The research results were published in the journal 'Reaction Chemistry & Engineering', contributing to sustainable development and UN goals. By leveraging artificial intelligence to adjust the systems, compared to traditional methods, there are...

Using AI to generate images, write emails, or ask chatbots contributes a certain burden to the planet. The energy consumed to generate an image using AI is equivalent to charging a mobile phone fully. The energy consumption for generating text is lower, as generating text 1000 times only consumes 16% of a mobile phone's charging capacity. The use of large generative AI models is more energy-intensive than smaller models.

{1: The UK government will allocate £4 million for green artificial intelligence projects aimed at achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. 2: The project includes using AI to predict the timing of energy production from the grid and achieving decarbonization in agriculture. 3: This initiative aims to promote the development of the clean energy sector and create new job opportunities.}