Carbon Footprint

If you are into protecting the environment. you must check out the new USB-A flash drive from TEAMGROUP. Called "C175 ECO," this drive is designed with sustainability in mind. Technically, it seems to have the same internals as the company's existing C175 (non-ECO), but with an eco-friendly green body instead of a black one. It even features the same cool concealed storage clip that prevents cap loss.

The C175 is crafted from 75 percent post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastics, effectively reducing carbon emissions by an impressive 69 percent. Despite its smaller carbon footprint, it doesn't compromise on durability. Believe it or not, purchasing just 100,000 of these flash drives is equivalent to saving around 203,000 sheets of A4 paper or eliminating the need for 9,200 PET water bottles (600ml).

In a world where technology and sustainability are becoming increasingly intertwined, Acer takes a significant step forward by introducing the Acer Connect Vero W6m, its first eco-friendly Wi-Fi 6E mesh router. This innovative networking solution not only offers impressive speeds and enhanced connectivity but also incorporates post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials in its construction. With a dedicated Eco mode for efficient energy consumption, Acer demonstrates its commitment to minimizing carbon footprint and fulfilling its environmental responsibility.

With Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band AXE7800 throughput, the Acer Connect Vero W6m delivers speeds of up to 7.8 Gbps, ensuring fast and stable internet connections for all users. Furthermore, the Vero W6m can be paired with up to four units, providing impressive network ranges of up to 465m² on a dual mesh system and up to 930m² on a quad mesh system. These capabilities effectively eliminate dead spots, ensuring seamless coverage in larger areas.

Businesses of all sizes are keen to reduce their carbon footprints and impact on the environment. Moving systems to the cloud can be a tempting approach but one that risks simply moving your impact elsewhere.

Leah Goldfarb has recently been appointed as environmental impact officer at enterprise PaaS provider Platform.sh, we spoke to her to discover more about the role and the importance of environmental issues to the industry.

The debate about the energy greediness of large AI models is raging. Recently, an AI ethics researcher at Google was dismissed because she had pinpointed the upward spiral of exploding training data sets. The fact is that the numbers make one’s head swim. In 2018, the BERT model made the headlines by achieving best-in-class NLP performance with a training dataset of 3 billion words.

Two years later, AI researchers were not working with billions of parameters anymore, but with hundreds of billions: in 2020, OpenAI presented GPT-3 -- acclaimed as the largest AI model ever built, with a data set of 500 billion words!