Tag: AWS

A new five-acre urban garden, supported by AWS, is opening at the Natural History Museum

Stuart Mitchell

The garden, equipped with sensors and a new Data Ecosystem powered by AWS technologies, will help foster research into urban biodiversity at London’s Natural History Museum. A new, free-to-visit garden at London’s Natural History Museum has transformed the area around the Museum’s grounds. The gardens – which will open to the public on 18 July – will feature a network of sensors, giving the Museum’s team of more than 350 research scientists unprecedented access to a wealth of biodiversity and environmental data. The Museum is working in partnership with Amazon…

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AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric Call for Supplier Action to Help Decarbonize Digital Infrastructure

Stuart Mitchell

The Governing Body of the iMasons Climate Accord, a program of Infrastructure Masons, is calling on all suppliers serving data centers to support greater transparency in Scope 3 emissions as part of broader efforts to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint. Consisting of AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric, the Governing Body released an open letter today that explains the importance of widespread adoption of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which are standardized, third-party-verified documents reporting the embodied emissions of a product. EPDs outline the greenhouse gas emissions of…

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AWS Makes Water Positive Commitment to Return More Water to Communities Than It Uses by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company has announced it will be water positive (water+) by 2030, returning more water to communities than it uses in its direct operations. The company also announced its 2021 global water use efficiency (WUE) metric of 0.25 liters of water per kilowatt-hour, demonstrating AWS’s leadership in water efficiency among cloud providers. AWS is already well on the path to becoming water+ and as part of this new commitment will report annually on its WUE metric, new water reuse and recycling efforts, new…

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Duke Energy collaborates with AWS to develop smart grid solutions to better serve customers and drive its clean energy transition

Stuart Mitchell

Duke Energy, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. , an Amazon.com, Inc. company, are entering into a multiyear strategic collaboration to accelerate the utility’s development of industry-leading grid solutions that will benefit customers and help advance Duke Energy’s clean energy transition.As part of this agreement, Duke Energy will build new smart grid software and services on AWS and expand its Intelligent Grid Services – a suite of custom-built applications that help the utility anticipate future energy demand and identify where and how to update the power grid. AWS, in turn, will…

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AWS Impact Accelerator Launches with $30 Million for Startups Led by Underrepresented Founders

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), has announced it has committed more than $30 million to early stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, and women founders as part of its new AWS Impact Accelerator. Over the three-year commitment, AWS will provide funding and guidance for a series of programs that will help these organizations build successful companies. Each qualifying startup receives up to $225,000 in cash and credits, extensive training, mentoring and technical guidance, as well as introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking opportunities with potential investors, and ongoing…

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