Valencia-based startup Internxt has been quietly working on an ambitious plan to make decentralized cloud storage massively accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. It’s just bagged $1M in seed funding led by Angels Capital, a European VC fund owned by Juan Roig (aka Spain’s richest...
energy consumption
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Düsseldorf-based proptech startup Dabbel is using AI to drive energy efficiency savings in commercial buildings. It’s developed cloud-based self-learning building management software that plugs into the existing building management systems (BMS) — taking over control of heating and cooling...
After Elon Musk's surprise announcement that Tesla would suspend Bitcoin transactions, people are heatedly arguing over whether the cryptocurrency is wrecking the planet. Read...
Crusoe Energy is tackling energy use for cryptocurrencies and data centers and greenhouse gas emissions
0
|
The two founders of Crusoe Energy think they may have a solution to two of the largest problems facing the planet today — the increasing energy footprint of the tech industry and the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the natural gas industry. Crusoe, which uses excess natural gas from...
Immersion cooling to offset data centers’ massive power demands gains a big booster in Microsoft
0
|
LiquidStack does it. So does Submer. They’re both dropping servers carrying sensitive data into goop in an effort to save the planet. Now they’re joined by one of the biggest tech companies in the world in their efforts to improve the energy efficiency of data centers, because Microsoft is...
Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech
0
|
Data centers and bitcoin mining operations are becoming huge energy hogs and the explosive growth of both risks undoing a lot of the progress that’s been made to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. It’s one of the major criticisms of cryptocurrency operations and something that many in the...
Brazilian startup Tractian gets the Y Combinator seal of approval for its equipment monitoring tech
0
|
Igor Marinelli and Gabriel Lameirinhas were raised around manufacturing plants. Marinelli’s father worked for International Paper in a plant outside of Sao Paulo while Lameirinhas’ father worked in a cement plant. Throughout their lives, the two friends had heard their parents complain about...
Norrsken Foundation is closing on an oversubscribed impact venture fund at 125 million euros
0
|
About four years ago, social impact organization Norrsken Foundation launched a small program investing around EUR30 million in capital it had received from its wealthy patron, Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth. Now, that initiative has become its own impact investment firm, Norrsken VC and,...
