computing power

 Tech giants are racing to ward off a carbon time bomb caused by the massive data centers they're building around the world.A technique pioneered by Google is gaining currency as more power-hungry artificial intelligence comes online: Using software to hunt for clean electricity in parts of the world with excess sun and wind on the grid, then ramping up data center operations there. Doing so could cut carbon and costs. There's an urgent need to figure out how to run data centers in ways that maximize renewable energy…

ASML Holding NV, where Van den Brink is now the chief technology officer, practically owns the market for a critical piece of equipment needed to produce the brains of everything that makes modern life possible — from cars and smartphones to computers, microwaves and airplanes. With the company’s high-end machines churning out chips that can also go into state-of-the-art weapons and artificial intelligence devices, ASML is effectively being treated as critical infrastructure for US national security and has…

Generative AI platforms have been the rage since the second half of last year with Microsoft and Google pushing these programs into their existing services. Even the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), on 3 February, said it is “cognizant" of the emergence and proliferation of generative AI and noted that AI can be a “kinetic enabler" for growth in India. However, researchers at institutes underline a host of challenges for generative AI projects in…