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How utilities can prepare for extreme weather with data and AI

IBM Big Data Hub

But flash floods, hurricanes and winter storms also profoundly impact utilities. Today, utilities are meeting these challenges and risks with innovation by leaning on data and AI to prepare for the next event. Identifying at-risk assets in advance is a main challenge for utilities.

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The path to embedded sustainability

IBM Big Data Hub

A recent study from the IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed 5,000 global C-suite executives across 22 industries to find out why sustainability isn’t generating more impact for organizations. One point addressed in our study surrounds the data specific challenges that can come with sustainability.

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How AI Could Write Our Laws

Schneier on Security

Big energy companies expect action whenever there is a move to end drilling leases for federal lands, in exchange for the tens of millions they contribute to congressional reelection campaigns. We should expect these techniques to get better and their utilization to grow, just as we’ve seen in so many other domains.

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Digital sobriety

Everteam

Flash memory has a better carbon footprint than the mechanical memory of our old hard drives, for example. What we can say for sure is that manufacturing user equipment is the most expensive, from both an energy and an environmental viewpoint. Apart from renewable energies, it is the energy with the best carbon footprint.

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How Content Services Are Enabling the Digital Transformation of Electric Utilities

AIIM

Electric utilities in the United States are a major source of CO2 – they created 1.55 And according to the US Energy Information Agency, consumption is expected to grow by 50% by the year 2050. To get greener, electric utilities must digitally transform. The Slow Transition to Green Energy. Artificial Intelligence.

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Ethical Use of Data for Training Machine Learning Technology - Part 3

AIIM

For example, the Department of Defense, through its DARPA research arm, began a program titled "Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)" in 2017. The nervous energy had been replaced with exhaustion. Some elements within the U.S. government are making strides towards AI fairness. Unfortunately, while some parts of the U.S.