Source: afr.com Australia’s data centres are concentrated in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, but that is starting to change as storage and cloud providers and their customers see the advantages of situating them in regional Australia.For example, Australian-owned cloud, data centre and connectivity provider iseek is set to open a data centre in Townsville shortly. Founder Read More
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Source:- strategy-business.com A large auto manufacturer asked a consulting firm to evaluate its competitive position in relation to ride-sharing startups building autonomous vehicles. Instead of viewing this as a classic strategy project, with a business case, PowerPoint decks, and five-year projections, the firm created a “game” that the automaker could “play” against its competitors. An artificial Read More
Source:- techxplore.com Wait, what? Creating an AI can be way worse for the planet than a car? Think carbon footprint. That is what a group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst did. They set out to assess the energy consumption that is needed to train four large neural networks. Their paper is currently attracting attention among tech watching Read More
Source-edf.org This spring, regulators in Wyoming were scrambling to figure out how to process 10,000 applications for oil and gas permits filed since oil prices began to rise in early 2016. At the same time, new permits were streaming in at an unprecedented rate, raising concerns that some proposed energy projects would not get the Read More