Climate Change: Technology as a Catalyst for Climate Action
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Claim: moving corporate compute to AWS can improve the carbon efficiency of workloads by 80% because average on-prem utilization sits around 15–50% while AWS runs shared infrastructure and 310 renewable projects, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2025. Current corporate cloud adoption is under 10%. Airbus targets a zero-emission aircraft by 2035, flies a hydrogen demonstrator in 2026, cites 50% emission cuts over 30 years, and tests elastic wings and formation flying that can save tons per Atlantic flight.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 16:39Energy Storage
- 19:07Sustainable Aviation Fuel
- 19:48Optimizing the Operations
- 20:16Re-Evaluating Software Itself for Efficiency
- 21:54Final Thoughts
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