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Douzone Bizon publishes sustainability management report
Douzone Bizon published a sustainability management report detailing its AI transformation (AX) strategy and environmental, social and governance performance, it said on Monday. The report follows GRI Standards 2021 and reflects some ESRS requirements. Douzone Bizon selected five key material topics, including product and technology innovation, information security and greenhouse gas cuts. It said it maintained zero information breaches and improved D Cloud Center power efficiency.
AI & Enterprise
Microsoft says ChatGPT power use per query may be up to 20 times lower than estimates
Microsoft released an analysis saying the electricity used to send one question to a large language model can be far lower than widely cited figures. Assuming a 300-token response, it put the median at 0.31 watt-hours, with the middle 50 percent ranging from 0.16 to 0.60 watt-hours. It said earlier estimates may have overstated usage by 4 to 20 times by not reflecting batch processing and real-world GPU utilisation.
Industry
Carbon cost burden seen as hurdle to attracting big tech tenants to data centres
Big tech companies are using access to renewable energy as a key yardstick when selecting sites for AI data centres, prompting warnings about South Korea’s competitiveness. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis said South Korea’s power mix, with a high share of fossil generation, could become a structural weakness in attracting tenants. It said carbon price gaps could add costs for exports to the EU and raise counterparty risk and production costs for semiconductor clusters and AI data centres.
