At -25°C, technology stops being a convenience. It becomes infrastructure.
My family and I have explored and hiked both Northern Pakistan and Northern China.Both are extreme environments, but Northern China remains the toughest we...
Environment & ESG
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14 articles in Environment & ESG
Technology Can Help Us Study Forests With Minimal Human Presence
Forests are among the most complex ecosystems to study. Many important changes happen slowly, unpredictably, or within a very short period.Temperature, hum...
Forest Intelligence: Understanding Nature Without Disturbing Nature
Forests are among the most valuable national assets. They regulate climate, store carbon, protect water resources, preserve biodiversity, and maintain ecol...
Reducing Corporate Carbon Footprint Through Responsible AI Adoption
Reducing Corporate Carbon Footprint Through Responsible AI Adoption AI adoption is growing rapidly across organisations. However, the sustainability impact...
AI consumes too much energy, water, and GPU power.
The most popular, and often the shallowest, opinion about AI is:“AI consumes too much energy, water, and GPU power.”What is even more concerning is tha...
Building Smarter AI with Lower Environmental Impact
Most organisations are adopting AI to improve productivity.But there is a challenge we rarely discuss:The more AI we use, the more computing power, energy,...
Responsible AI Starts Where ESG Often Ends
Board Meeting on ESGAll board members agreed:“We must change for a better world.”We discussed sustainability, energy efficiency, carbon reduction, resp...
AI Doesn't Have to Be Expensive. It Doesn't Have to Be Carbon Intensive Either.
One of the biggest misconceptions in AI today is that more AI automatically means a better system.It doesn't.A well-engineered platform isn't measured by h...
Responsible AI for Better ESG Systems
Projected data centre energy use may grow from 415 TWh in 2024 to 945 TWh by 2030, with estimated emissions rising from around 185 Mt CO₂ to 421 Mt CO₂...
Using LLMs purely because of hype does not benefit the world.
Using LLMs purely because of hype does not benefit the world.In fact, it can work against ESG goals, waste energy, increase unnecessary operating costs, an...
AI Must Be Sustainable by Design
Europe's heatwave is a reminder that the future of AI must be sustainable. Climate change remains the primary driver of Europe's extreme heat. At the same...
ESG is not paperwork. ESG is operational efficiency with proof.
AI can support ESG in a much more practical way.Not by adding more buzzwords.But by reducing unnecessary cloud processing, cutting repeated manual work, im...
AI Is Powerful, But At What Cost?
Everyone is talking about AI, but few are talking seriously about the electricity, water usage, carbon footprint, and environmental damage caused around la...
Bigger data centres and stronger power grids.
Why computational efficiency matters more than brute-force AI. Smart routing and detached systems can reduce AI processing by 95.6% while cutting energy consumption and…
