sustainability

  1. 2023 3D Printing Industry Awards: Trends, Winners, and Industrial Momentum

    The 2023 3D Printing Industry Awards delivered a clear snapshot of where additive manufacturing has matured—and where it still must prove itself—by honoring companies, products, and projects that pushed material science, desktop accessibility, industrial reliability, and real-world application...
  2. AI Climate Claims: Greenwashing and the Real Emissions Trade‑Off

    Tech-industry claims that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are a decisive lever against climate change have moved rapidly from hopeful rhetoric to corporate orthodoxy — and a new, careful analysis shows much of that rhetoric is greenwashing in plain clothes. Background: what the...
  3. Microsoft Community-First AI Infrastructure: No Bill Increases and Local Benefits

    Microsoft’s latest public push to expand AI-ready datacenters comes with an explicit promise: the company says it will “pay its own way” so local household electricity bills do not rise as a result of its buildouts, and it pairs that pledge with targets on water, jobs, taxes and community...
  4. ASUS CES 2026 Innovation Awards: AI on devices, ProArt tools, and gaming displays

    ASUS’s CES 2026 haul — eight Innovation Awards across six distinct product categories — is a clear, public-facing signal that the company is staking its brand on a mix of on-device AI, pro‑grade creative tools, sustainability messaging, and a hard push into high‑end gaming displays. The honors...
  5. Hidden Costs of AI in Education: Energy, Water, and Governance

    Artificial Intelligence is reshaping classrooms, research labs, and study habits — but every quick prompt, revision and “thank you” carries a measurable environmental and operational cost that students, educators and campus leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Background AI tools such as...
  6. Microsoft Launches Southeast Asia 3 Azure Region in Johor Bahru for AI workloads

    Microsoft’s announcement of a new Azure cloud region in Johor Bahru — branded Southeast Asia 3 — marks a deliberate escalation of its Malaysia strategy, adding in‑country capacity purpose‑built for AI workloads while coupling that infrastructure with skilling, community and sustainability...
  7. ICE Qatar Gala Highlights Civil Engineers Driving Global Impact

    The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Qatar used its annual gala to spotlight a simple, powerful message: civil engineers are no longer just builders of roads and bridges — they are architects of global impact, driving sustainability, resilience, and social value from Doha to the world stage...
  8. Call Before You Scrap It: Reusing Windows 10 PCs for Local Social Benefit

    SocialBox.Biz’s new “Call Before You Scrap It” appeal is an emphatic push for companies—especially those in Westminster and central London—to stop defaulting to recycling and instead assess surplus Windows 10 machines and other corporate IT for reuse, secure refurbishment and redistribution to...
  9. Logitech Signature Slim Solar+ K980 Review: A Solar Powered Full Size Keyboard

    Logitech’s Signature Slim Solar+ K980 lands in India as a bold iteration of an old idea: a full-size, laptop‑style keyboard that claims to eliminate charging and disposable batteries by harvesting light from any source and storing it in a proprietary, long‑life battery. The company’s Logi...
  10. Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Sustainability, AI, and Sovereign Cloud Insights

    Microsoft’s virtual datacenter tour — presented through partners and event organizers including ChannelEye’s December 1, 2025 session — pulls back the curtain on the physical and engineering backbone that runs Azure, Microsoft 365 and the company’s expanding AI services, and it arrives at a...
  11. Microsoft Opens Southeast Asia 3 Azure Region in Johor Bahru for AI Ready Cloud

    Microsoft’s decision to open a new Azure cloud region in Johor Bahru — announced as the “Southeast Asia 3” region — marks the next phase of an already sizable push into Malaysia and Southeast Asia, expanding on the Malaysia West launch earlier this year and reinforcing the company’s positioning...
  12. Rose Damen Leads Sustainability and Leadership at FLIBS 2025

    Rose Damen’s recognition at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show signals a moment of convergence for the superyacht industry: family-led heritage, high-end design, and an increasingly public commitment to sustainability and inclusion are now legitimate yardsticks of leadership as much as...
  13. Carbon Aware Routing in Azure API Management Preview

    Microsoft’s latest public preview for Azure API Management (APIM) adds built‑in environmental controls that let APIs make carbon‑aware routing and processing decisions — shifting traffic toward lower‑carbon Azure regions and applying policy‑level behavior changes (caching, telemetry, rate...
  14. Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Migration Playbook for IT Leaders

    A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...
  15. Windows 10 EOS 2025: Linux Growth vs Windows 11 PC Refresh

    The desktop war over what happens to millions of older Windows PCs after October’s Windows 10 end‑of‑support deadline has produced a surprising — if predictable — pattern: rather than switching en masse to Linux, many owners of unsupported machines appear to be following the route Microsoft and...
  16. Microsoft's $7B Wisconsin AI Campus: Azure's AI Infrastructure Lead

    Microsoft’s decision to expand its Wisconsin AI campus with an additional $4 billion — bringing total investment in the Mount Pleasant/Racine County site to more than $7 billion — is a clear signal that the company intends to cement Azure’s role as an AI infrastructure leader, and the...
  17. UK AI Onshore Compute: Stargate UK, Nscale & Sovereign GPU Campus

    Nscale’s announcement — made in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI — marks one of the most ambitious single-country AI infrastructure packages to land in recent memory, promising to put tens of thousands of next‑generation GPUs on British soil, to seed a sovereign compute platform...
  18. Microsoft's Fairwater Wisconsin AI Campus: A 10x Frontier Compute Leap for Azure and OpenAI

    Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has publicly framed the company’s sprawling new Wisconsin AI campus — branded Fairwater — as a leap in raw frontier compute, saying the site “will deliver 10x the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today” and positioning the build as a cornerstone for...
  19. Fairwater: Microsoft's AI Datacenter Factory for Frontier Training

    The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of...
  20. Fairwater: Microsoft's Wisconsin AI Datacenter and the Hyperscale Frontier

    Microsoft's announcement that Fairwater — a sprawling AI datacenter complex built on the shelved Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — will become the “world’s most powerful AI datacenter” is a watershed moment for U.S. hyperscale infrastructure, but it also raises immediate technical...