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British Gas launches trial scheme to reuse waste heat from data processing – and it involves installing a tiny ‘virtual data center’ in homes
British Gas is carrying out a trial using excess heat from data processing to provide free hot water in homes. The company has signed a deal with sustainable cloud business heata that will see the heat generated by corporate data processing channeled directly into hot water cylinder in the home. Not only could this cut heating costs for homeowners, British…
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WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin
WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today. This “minimal” update, which he labels a fork of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin, is now called “Secure Custom Fields.” It’s not clear what security problem Mullenweg is referring to…
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‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway’: Eric Schmidt has a plan to drive sustainable data center and AI development – and it involves more AI
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt has aired his feelings on AI sustainability, minimizing the place of conservation as part of a fireside chat at a US think tank. After listing some of the potential remedies to data center power consumption – better battery materials and reductions in power line losses, for example – Schmidt said sustainable objectives may end up taking…
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