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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and AWS to Accelerate AI-Driven Cancer Innovation

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), a leading global cancer center, today announced a collaboration harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC), and other cloud technology to accelerate breakthroughs in cancer. With cancer deaths projected to reach 15 million annually by 2040, uniting MSK’s research and clinical expertise with AWS’s advanced cloud technologies is a bold step towards addressing one of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Unlocking data to deliver unprecedented oncology insight In keeping with…

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Iberdrola and Amazon further expand their global renewable energy partnership and harness the AWS cloud to scale Iberdrola’s business

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon and Iberdrola, one of the world’s largest clean energy companies, have added an additional 476 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy PPAs (power purchase agreements) to their global renewable energy partnership, expanding its presence into five countries.  The new power purchase agreements include Amazon’s first PPA in Portugal for 219 MW from the Tâmega Wind Complex, the largest wind farm in Portugal, scheduled to begin construction in early 2025. The partnership also expanded into Spain, with two utility scale PPAs agreed for a total 257 MW of solar and wind…

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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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