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NEXGEN CLOUD AND AQ COMPUTE ADVANCE TOWARDS NET ZERO AI SUPERCLOUD
NexGen Cloud , a sustainable GPU cloud and Infrastructureas-a-Service ( IaaS ) provider , has announced a partnership with European data centre provider , AQ Compute , to provide decarbonised AI computing in Europe .
Data centres use an increasing share of the world ’ s electricity capacity , and the rapid growth of AI is expected to exacerbate the problem . The International Energy Agency ( IEA ) reports that data centres consume over 1 % of the world ’ s electricity today and emit as much CO 2 as the commercial airline industry , but this could increase by 85.4 – 134.0TWh before 2027 driven by the power needs of AI chips .
Some estimates suggest that annual electricity demand for information and communication technology could grow to as much as 8,000TWh by 2030 , equating to 20.9 % of projected electric demand .
Under the AI Net Zero collaboration , NexGen Cloud ’ s AI solutions will be hosted on AQ Compute ’ s European infrastructure that uses renewable energy to power and cool its data centres . The partnership will aim to ensure that NexGen Cloud ’ s US $ 1 billion AI supercloud will be net zero .
NexGen Cloud is investing US $ 1 billion to build Europe ’ s first AI Supercloud to support Artificial Intelligence applications across healthcare , finance , media and entertainment . The European AI Supercloud will eventually consist of more than 20,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs by June 2024 , providing enterprises with access to one of the world ’ s most powerful GPU-accelerated platforms .
NZero ’ s carbon management solution provides 24 / 7 hourly greenhouse gas ( GHG ) inventory accounting across Scopes 1 , 2 and 3 , as well as automated utility data ingestion . This granular level of reporting enables NZero to provide GHG reduction guidance that complies with the law in jurisdictions where individual companies have data centre operations .
WWT clients will be able to use the reports created by NZero to receive greater understanding of their energy mix composition , identify efficiencies and decarbonisation strategies and annual GHG reporting .
NZero , a real-time data and decarbonisation platform , has announced its partnership with World Wide Technology ( WWT ), a leading global technology integrator . NZero ’ s 24 / 7 carbon emissions tracking and measurement technology and predictive capabilities further extends WWT ’ s carbon measurement offerings in the buildings sector , with a focus on data centres .
NZERO ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT CARBON MEASUREMENT OFFERINGS
Given regulatory developments such as SB 253 and SB 261 in California and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive ( CSRD ) in Europe , together with supply chain pressures on disclosure , companies are increasingly being required to measure and disclose their carbon emissions .
Business and government leaders not only need the highest degree of data granularity available across all scopes , but they need to understand the resulting retrofit opportunities with speed and efficiency to inform operational and capital planning , leverage tax credits and meet the evolving expectations of stakeholders and reporting standards .
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