renewable energy

New ML Method Investigates Promising Solar Materials

Over the past fifty years, solar power has risen from a curiosity and future prospect to a truly viable utility-scale energy source that provides nearly three percent of U.S. ...Full Article

How HPC+AI Can Play in the Renewable Revolution

Wind and solar are now the least expensive means to produce electricity. As a result, tens of gigawatts of new renewable energy have come online in the last decade, ...Full Article

Amazon and BP Expanding Their Year-Old Deal for Renewable Energy and AWS Cloud Services

For the last year, Amazon Web Services and BP have been working together as partners, with AWS providing BP with services to migrate more than 400 applications to the ...Full Article

Microsoft and Shell Launch Strategic Alliance to Share AI, Carbon Emissions Expertise

Microsoft Corp. has helped the Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd. integrate the power of AI into a wide range of internal and consumer-facing applications and uses over the last ...Full Article

From Iceland, HPC-as-a-Service Finds Toehold in FinServ, Automotive, Scientific R&D

While high-demand workloads (e.g., bitcoin mining) can overheat data center cooling capabilities, at least one data center infrastructure provider has announced an HPC-as-a-service offering that features 100 percent free ...Full Article

IBM Debuts New Wind and Solar Forecasting System

IBM announced an advanced power and weather modeling technology that will help utilities increase the reliability of renewable energy resources. Full Article

Turning Trash Into Renewable Energy for the Datacenter

Renewable energy developer Vieste Energy is partnering with green building design firm ESD (Environmental Systems Design, Inc.) on a national portfolio of 100 percent renewable energy datacenters. Full Article

Putting Your Computer Where Your Power Is

New Mexico-based startup SELC Corp. has taken the utility computing concept and turned it on its head by asking: instead of sending power to the computer, why not send ...Full Article

Datapipe Launches Green HPC Cloud Node

Managed services and infrastructure provider Datapipe has launched its greenest and most high performance solution yet – in Iceland – in partnership with Verne Global. Full Article

Iceland Wants Your Datacenter Business

A new independent study conducted by global research outfit BroadGroup Consulting reveals that Iceland is on track to becoming an international datacenter hub. The report describes Iceland's unique advantages: ...Full Article