Artificial intelligence Meets Sustainability

WekaIO (WEKA), the data platform provider for performance-intensive workloads, recently announced a new Sustainable AI Initiative. The initiative aims to raise awareness of the rapid growth in global data center energy consumption and carbon emissions being driven by next-generation computing technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high-performance computing (HPC).

Through its Sustainable AI Initiative, WEKA announced it is partnering with One Tree Planted to contribute to its global reforestation projects to support decarbonization and help mitigate the harmful effect of climate change.

While AI, ML and HPC are powering a new era of digital transformation and insights, these technologies are enormously power and performance-intensive to run, contributing to explosive growth in global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Through its partnership with One Tree Planted, WEKA will plant 20,000 trees globally in 2023 and is pledging to plant ten trees for every petabyte of software it sells annually in the future.

More information can be found on Weka’s website.