The McKinsey 2026 cleantech report shows that despite recent funding slow‑downs, investment remains robust, outlines three development phases, and identifies three core rules—cheaper, faster, better—while warning of common pitfalls and highlighting AI, standardisation and low‑cost financing as future growth drivers.
Oracle is expanding its partnership with Bloom Energy to install a 2.45 GW fuel‑cell power plant near a new desert data‑center complex in New Mexico, positioning the move as a greener alternative to its earlier gas‑diesel "Jupiter" plan despite reliance on natural‑gas‑based fuel cells.
MinIO, the once‑downloaded‑over‑10‑billion‑times open‑source object storage project, abruptly stopped providing pre‑built Docker images, forcing users to build their own, sparking widespread criticism over unannounced licensing changes, security risks, and the sustainability challenges facing popular open‑source cloud‑native software.
The OpenSSF’s “Open Infrastructure is Not Free” statement warns that exploding dependency usage, AI‑driven builds, and lack of caching are straining open‑source package ecosystems, urging large users to pay, adopt tiered models, and help sustain the services we all rely on.
The 2025 report catalogs startups funded by major international insurers, grouping them into AI, fintech, data security, sustainability, medical tech and other categories, and provides each company's core technology, market focus and recent financing details.
The article explores how AI, IoT, and edge computing are driving a shift from isolated, point‑level automation to fully integrated, self‑evolving smart building ecosystems, supporting urban renewal, carbon‑neutral goals, enhanced user experience, and resilient, sustainable cities.
Starting June 20, 2025, the EU will mandate that all smartphones and tablets sold within its market carry a new energy‑efficiency label, detailing EEI grades, battery endurance, durability, repairability, and other performance metrics, aiming to guide consumers and push manufacturers toward more sustainable product designs.
Sam Altman revealed that excessive politeness toward ChatGPT, such as saying “please” and “thank you,” can drive up server workload and electricity use, potentially costing OpenAI tens of millions of dollars, while highlighting broader concerns about AI energy consumption and user behavior.
This article explains the four-stage Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, presents a detailed milk‑brand case study with carbon and water‑footprint data, offers optimization suggestions, and discusses LCA's limitations and future development for sustainable decision‑making.
This article examines how cloud computing has become central to enterprise IT architecture, explores its cost governance challenges, outlines industry trends, standards like ITIL and COBIT, and presents practical strategies—including FinOps, multi‑cloud platforms, and sustainable practices—to effectively manage and reduce IT costs.
The inaugural IEEE standards conference on cloud‑native and green computing held in Shenzhen gathered industry and standards leaders to discuss sustainable cloud practices, introduce new metrics such as CPUE, and announce a collaborative green evaluation standardization action to drive eco‑friendly cloud development.
The 2023 Inclusion·Bund Conference examined the rapid growth of large‑model AI, the resulting GPU shortage, and presented multi‑sector strategies—including policy guidance, ESG standards, AI‑driven optimization, and collaborative standards—to achieve sustainable, energy‑efficient computing across the entire ecosystem.
This article explores how artificial intelligence enhances emotional experience design through emotion recognition, personalized services, and sustainable applications, while also highlighting technical, cultural, and privacy challenges and offering practical recommendations for designers to create more empathetic and responsible AI‑driven experiences.
The article recounts core‑js author Denis Pushkarev’s struggle with sustaining a widely used polyfill library, his financial hardships, legal troubles, and proposes practical ways for full‑time open‑source contributors to achieve financial stability through sponsorship, remote work, and sustainable licensing models.
Google's ChromeOS Flex stable release lets users transform compatible Windows or macOS PCs into lightweight, cloud‑centric Chromebooks, offering a green alternative to device replacement with modest hardware requirements and extensive device certification.
Google's ChromeOS Flex 103 release lets users convert compatible Windows or macOS PCs into Chromebooks, offering a low‑spec, sustainable OS with over 400 certified devices, detailed hardware requirements, shared ChromeOS features, and easy USB‑boot installation.
On May 12, the inaugural Immersion Liquid Cooling Intelligent Computing Industry Forum held online featured nearly forty industry representatives and saw Alibaba Cloud unveil three new immersion liquid cooling technical standards and two whitepapers, highlighting material compatibility, cabinet and server structure guidelines, optical module reliability, and recent research achievements toward sustainable, high‑efficiency data center solutions.
The article summarizes Amazon Web Services CTO Werner Vogels' vision from re:Invent 2021, highlighting three emerging trends—robotics as a still‑young field, sustainability becoming a core cloud pillar, and computing expanding beyond Earth to edge, satellite and space platforms—while outlining AWS initiatives supporting each direction.
The article examines the critical Log4j2 vulnerability, exposes the broader open‑source sustainability crisis where volunteer maintainers receive little support, and argues for paid contracts between corporations and developers to ensure long‑term project health and security.
The article examines the high‑profile Log4j2 vulnerability, exposes the unpaid labor of open‑source maintainers, and argues that sustainable funding models and corporate‑maintainer contracts are essential for the long‑term health of critical open‑source projects.
The 2021 Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey, based on responses from over 800 operators and owners worldwide, highlights growing sustainability concerns, decreasing outage frequency, persistent challenges in water usage and emissions tracking, the impact of AI, supply‑chain disruptions, and rising rack density trends.
This article explains the origins of China's Low‑Carbon Day, defines carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and highlights how Alibaba Cloud’s green technologies—such as high‑efficiency cloud computing, liquid‑cooling data centers, and clean‑energy trading—contribute to reducing emissions and supporting the nation’s double‑carbon goals.
The article reflects on how most members of technical teams are passively driven, examines the unsustainable management practices that try to force active drive, draws parallels with education and economic sustainability, and proposes a more balanced, sustainable team culture that respects individual differences and long‑term growth.
The article explores how the superior efficiency of electric vehicles, the inevitable limits of fossil‑fuel energy, and the need for high‑quality, closed‑loop data feedback together shape a sustainable path for humanity and business alike.
Google’s DeepMind AI system autonomously optimizes data‑center cooling, reducing energy consumption by up to 40%, and its success is prompting plans to extend the technology to national power grids and other large‑scale infrastructure, showcasing AI’s potential for massive environmental impact.
This article compares waterfall and agile approaches to software architecture, examining the architect's role, time span, deliverables, and documentation practices, and offers practical guidance for building sustainable, adaptable system designs in modern development environments.
