French Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider OVHcloud is rolling out an exhaustive carbon calculator to its customers to help make it easier for them to track the Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions generated by their cloud usage. Eight months in the making, the tool is accessible via the OVHcloud customer panel, and according to the company will provide users with a granular level of detail about the carbon footprint of their cloud infrastructure. It has also been co-developed with Sopra Steria, and its results are location-based, meaning it factors in the different energy mix that OVHcloud draws on to power its datacentres, which can differ depending on where they are situated

MLCommons this week issued the results of its latest MLPerf Inference (v3.1) benchmark exercise. Nvidia was again the top performing accelerator, but Intel (Xeon CPU) and Habana (Gaudi1 and 2) performed well. Google provided a peak at its new TPU (v5e) performance

IPSWICH, UK BTs Sustainability Festival 2023 As part of its efforts to become a green telco, BT is exploring the use of liquid cooling solutions across its network and IT infrastructure, and, according to the operator, its initial trials with an abundance of partners suggest significant cost reductions could be achieved. During its first Sustainability Festival, held at its Adastral Park research centre this week, the UK telco demonstrated some of the emerging technologies that, it hopes, will help it become net zero by the end of March 2031 and the majority of them are focused on ways to keep datacentre equipment cool, a challenge often cited by the whole tech sector as a major pain point. While the fundamental technology is owned by the vendors of the solutions it had on display at Adastral Park, BT is engaged with them in terms of specific design requirements.