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Empowering Sustainability: 4 Strategies To Significantly Reduce the Semiconductor Industry’s Carbon Footprint

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It’s needed for every sustainability effort – smart grids, the transition to renewables, low carbon footprint logistics, and supply chains. Complex production, resource-intensive supply chains Semicon fabs are colossal consumers of water and energy. Then, ensure efficient voltage and current distribution.

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Enabling a Sustainable Chip Industry Requires a Long-Term Vision and Near-Term Actions

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Purchased Goods and Services (Category 1) represents about 15 percent of Applied’s estimated supply chain emissions and is the second largest contributor to our Scope 3 footprint for our semiconductor equipment. Semiconductors play a critical role in enabling digital transformation.

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Building a More Sustainable Future with 6G

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The emerging vision for 6G is to make possible near-instant and ubiquitous connectivity to transform how the human, physical, and digital worlds interact. 6G will both expand upon and go far beyond the capabilities of 5G, marking a new era of wireless that accelerates digitalization and drives business innovation across critical industries.

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The Plan for Possible: How Cisco is Connecting a Regenerative Future

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We have a plan: It is possible to power the world with affordable clean energy , so we are helping to digitize smart grids and smart buildings. As a part of this priority, we’ve also set a goal to reach Net Zero across our value chain by 2040, which includes both our supplier and our customer use of energy.

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Energy-Saving Water Technologies Could Bring the World Closer to Net Zero

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For example, a new project that Black & Veatch is developing with a client in Nevada deployed genetic algorithms and computer optimization during the planning stage to evaluate environmental and performance trade-offs, find good balance between capital and lifecycles costs, and improve the overall resilience of the system.

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Forget net-zero, businesses should be striving for true zero. Here’s why.

Renewable Energy World

Traceability is the next big frontier in demanding clean energy from source to socket, argues former IBM Global Smart Grid Systems Leader, Steve Hoy. We track almost everything these days: packages, food, supply chains, even pets. Digitalizing the grid means we can measure electricity source and flow in minute detail.

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