AI & Enterprise

Amazon first discloses data centre water use at 9.4 billion litres a year

Amazon for the first time disclosed the amount of water it used to run data centres worldwide, saying it consumed about 2.5 billion gallons, or roughly 9.5 billion litres, last year. The company said its data centres used an average of 0.12 litres of water per kilowatt hour of electricity, and that total water use fell 2 percent from a year earlier. Critics note the figure excludes indirect water use at power plants and during construction.

AI & Enterprise

Hancom runs BGF Group AI knowledge search system build project

Hancom said on Wednesday it has prepared BGF Group’s structured and unstructured internal data into a form that artificial intelligence can read and process, based on its Hancom Data Loader and Hancom Pedia solutions. BGF Group carried out a project to build an AI knowledge search system that supports intelligent handling of internal data such as company-wide bulletin boards and work documents. Hancom said it implemented the system in an on-premise environment and reflected BGF Group’s security policies and access controls.