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By Nicola K Smith
image captionThe solarpunk aesthetic depicts nature and technology in harmony
Lush green communities with roof top gardens, floating villages, transport fuelled by clean energy and hope-filled sci-fi tales. Imagine a world in which existing technologies are deployed for the greater good of both people and the planet.
It s called solarpunk. The term, coined in 2008, refers to an art movement which broadly envisions how the future might look if we lived in harmony with nature in a sustainable and egalitarian world. Solarpunk is really the only solution to the existential corner of climate disaster we have backed ourselves into as a species, says Michelle Tulumello, a solarpunk art teacher in New York state.
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CEO Dominic Ward and CTO Tate Cantrell to provide insights on AI-ready and sustainable data center design and operations Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced that CEO Dominic Ward and CTO Tate Cantrell are speaking at NVIDIA s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2021. Ward and Cantrell are among a select group of experts from leading companies around the world sharing insights and innovations at GTC, the largest and foremost conference for AI innovators, technologists, and creatives.
In his session titled,
Evolution of the AI Data Center: Beyond the Box, Ward will be discussing why it is vital to match the calibre of advanced supercomputing platforms, like NVIDIA
Verne Global is in the process of building a new green data centre at the site of the old NATO Base in Iceland. The former military base has since been renamed the Asbru Community of Education and Entrepreneurs. The American Air Force quit the Reykjanes base late in 2006, and it has since been regenerated into a student campus and technology park.
As well as Verne Global, Asbru is getting attention from all sorts of other companies wanting to invest in sustainability and green innovation using clean energy from Icelandic hydroelectric and geothermal energy sources. A clean energy research lab (Keilir) and a clean energy business incubator (Eldey) are all a part of the area’s strategy of creating a clean technology business park.