UNCOVERING THE LAYERS
Carlo Ruiz , Senior Director , Data Centre Solutions EMEA , NVIDIA
the solution . They ’ re advancing science and our quality of life , which includes the ways we understand and respond to climate change – and doing so with minimum energy consumption .
Accountable technology
The concept of green computing hit the public spotlight in 1992 . The US Environmental Protection Agency launched Energy Star , a programme focusing on identifying whether consumer electronics met energy efficiency standards .
The year 2007 saw the launch of the Green500 – a list of the top 500 supercomputers , ranked by their energy efficiency . The list quickly became a rallying point for a community that needed to make power consumption as efficient as possible , while maximising performance . The list has since seen vast improvements in energy efficiency , primarily due to the use of accelerators like GPUs .
Since then , green computing has become fundamental to IT strategy . A 2017 report found that nearly 100 government and industry programmes across 22 countries promoted sustainable information and communication technologies .
The future of green technology
Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) is transforming the way the world works . From operations across industries like healthcare to retail , to end-user Generative AI applications like ChatGPT or Midjourney , the democratisation and growing adoption of AI in every industry is just beginning .
Supercomputers that use GPUs and data processing units ( DPUs ) enable greater energy efficiency for High-Performance www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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