Google’s Data Centers To Use ‘Carbon-Intelligent Computing’
‘Google can now shift moveable compute tasks between different data centers, based on regional hourly carbon-free energy availability,’ says Ross Koningstein, co-founder of Google’s Carbon-Intelligent Computing project. By Mark Haranas May 19, 2021, 01:55 PM EDT
As Google continues to pour billions into building new data centers across the globe, the public cloud and search giant says it will shift the data processing for things like Google photos and YouTube videos to data centers where green power is more available.
Starting in 2021, Google’s “carbon-intelligent computing” will move workloads from data center to data center based on availably of renewable energy for more than one-third of its non-production workloads.
Google Searches for Total Sustainability
Power-hungry ad giant s annual I/O developers conference puts spotlight on building software that mitigates corporate impacts on all stakeholders, including workers and cities.
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May 19, 2021
Power-hungry ad giant s annual I/O developers conference puts spotlight on building software that mitigates corporate impacts on all stakeholders, including workers and cities.
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In addition to launching products, modern chief executives must navigate the politics of corporate responsibility while attracting professional investors.
Sundar Pichai, the chieftain at Alphabet (GOOGL), stepped Tuesday onto a makeshift stage at the Google campus. As the host of the I/O developer conference he could have talked about code. Instead, Pichai talked sustainability in the most Google way pos
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2020
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Much of the 2020 datacentre news cycle has been dominated by the colocation and hyperscale operators’ efforts to rapidly adapt to the unprecedented levels of demand for cloud services across the world as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold.
As governments around the world issued “stay at home” mandates for their citizens, enterprises had no choice but to embrace remote working and found themselves having to rapidly pick up the pace of their digital transformation efforts to ensure their IT systems were equipped to cope.