Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

• LONDON, Oct. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BizClik is the UK's fastest growing publishing company, has published the October edition of Data Centre Magazine.
• The digital edition of Data Centre Magazine is a trusted industry sources for in-depth reports and interviews with the leading minds in the Data Centre industry.
• The October edition also contains extensive interviews with key thought leaders from STT GDC, Iceotope, and Nomad Futurist.
• PLUS; The Future of Hyperscalers, Women in Data Centres and the Top 10 Data Centre Companies
  You can visit https://datacentremagazine.com/ for daily news and analysis of the ever-changing Data Centre industry, or read the digital magazine here

• BRISBANE, AUS, Aug 28, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd. (TSXV: GMG) ("GMG" or the "Company") is pleased to outline important commercialisation progress and sales development of THERMAL-XR(R) powered by GMG Graphene.
• GMG has also installed laboratory facilities for quality and control requirements and progressing research and development, to extend and enhance the THERMAL-XR(R) portfolio into additional industries and applications.
• Furthermore, wider potential industries are being assessed including energy savings applications in Data Centres and for Energy Producers e.g.
• A testing program with LNG producers is in the process of being developed and implemented.

• Data Centre Magazine has launched its Top 100 Companies supplement, ranking the world's best data centre companies from Edge Centres and NTT to AWS.
• LONDON, Aug. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Centre Magazine is thrilled to announce the highly-anticipated launch of its prestigious Top 100 Companies supplement, which celebrates the world's most influential data centre companies.
• For further details on the Top 100 Companies supplement and to explore the incredible journeys of these global data centre leaders, click HERE .
• Data Centre Magazine , a BizClik brand, is a leading data centre publication that connects the world's leading data centre executives with news, feature articles, interviews and the latest industry trends.

• Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominated by a few key concerns, such as whether superintelligent AI will wipe us out, or whether AI will steal our jobs.
• But we’ve paid less attention the various other environmental and social impacts of our “consumption” of AI, which are arguably just as important.

Environmental impacts of AI use

• And although AI is currently estimated to contribute less than 1% of total carbon emissions, the AI market size is predicted to grow ninefold by 2030.
• Data centres use water towers to cool the on-site servers where AI models are trained and deployed.
• In a preprint published this year, Pengfei Li and colleagues presented a methodology for gauging the water footprint of AI models.
• They did this in response to a lack of transparency in how companies evaluate the water footprint associated with using and training AI.

Social impacts of AI use

• This is typically outsourced to independent contractors who face precarious work conditions in low-income countries, leading to “digital sweatshop” criticisms.
• Left unchecked, AI has the potential to be used to manipulate public opinion, and by extension could undermine democratic processes.
• The large-scale adoption of AI has the potential to worsen global wealth inequality.

Are there solutions?

• Future generative AI models could be designed to use significantly less energy, but it’s hard to say whether they will be.
• These would help users understand and compare the impacts of specific AI services, allowing them to choose those which have been certified.
• China has also published rules on the use of generative AI, requiring security assessments for products offering services to the public.
• Read more:
  EU approves draft law to regulate AI – here's how it will work

  Ascelin Gordon is employed by RMIT University.