How NVIDIA is Enabling Customers to Achieve Significant Energy Savings

AI and accelerated computing drive energy efficiency gains: NVIDIA’s platform is enabling customers across industries to achieve significant energy savings and sustainability improvements.

• NVIDIA aims to power its global operations entirely with renewable energy by the end of January, aligning with its mission to support sustainable growth through AI and accelerated computing.
• As world leaders gather for Climate Week 2024 in New York City, the company highlights recent advancements in energy efficiency across various sectors.

Manufacturing innovation through digital twins: Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, is leveraging AI and accelerated computing to create a digital twin of its new factory in Mexico.

• The digital twin will guide automation and industrial efficiency improvements, with Foxconn estimating a 30% annual energy savings.
• Foxconn’s project utilizes software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, including Teamcenter and NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for developing 3D workflows and applications.
• Siemens and NVIDIA executives will discuss their sustainability efforts at a Climate Week event moderated by TIME magazine.

Cloud computing efficiency breakthroughs: Cloud services are achieving significant advances in energy efficiency through the adoption of NVIDIA’s technologies.

• An e-commerce website experienced a 33x speedup and nearly 12x energy-efficiency improvement by migrating from CPUs to GPUs for AI-powered customer connections.
• A popular video conferencing application increased throughput from 3 to 200 queries per second, resulting in a 66x speedup and 25x energy-efficiency improvement by switching to GPUs for captioning services.
• Service providers like Equinix are increasingly turning to renewable energy sources, with Equinix aiming for 100% renewable energy use by 2030 and currently at 96%.

Healthcare advancements with reduced environmental impact: AI and accelerated computing are enabling healthcare companies to improve disease understanding and treatment while reducing energy consumption.

• The Wellcome Sanger Institute, one of the world’s largest genome sequencing facilities, has achieved significant improvements in its cancer research program using NVIDIA Parabricks software on DGX systems.
• The institute has reported reductions in run times by 1.6x, capital costs by 24x, and energy consumption by up to 42x, potentially saving $1 million and 1,000 megawatt-hours annually.

Expanding the sustainability ecosystem: NVIDIA is fostering a broad ecosystem focused on sustainability through collaborations and support for entrepreneurs.

• A partnership with the United Nations has trained over 14,000 data scientists on designing AI models for early flood detection.
• The NVIDIA Inception program’s Sustainable Futures initiative now includes more than a thousand startups working on energy efficiency solutions using AI, accelerated computing, and open platforms like NVIDIA Earth-2.

Continuous improvement in AI efficiency: NVIDIA’s ongoing optimization efforts have led to remarkable gains in energy efficiency for AI processing.

• Over the past eight years, the NVIDIA platform has become 45,000x more energy efficient when processing large language models.
• Speedups over CPUs ranging from 20x to 160x are available across various workloads, resulting in significant energy savings.

Climate Week engagement and future outlook: NVIDIA and its partners are actively participating in Climate Week events to promote sustainability and showcase innovative solutions.

• The company is involved in events such as the Climate AI Summit with Salesforce and a Climate Science Fair featuring startups using NVIDIA technologies.
• NVIDIA’s Earth-2 platform will be demonstrated, highlighting its potential for planetary-scale simulations to address climate change.

Implications for sustainable computing: The advancements in AI and accelerated computing underscore their potential to drive significant energy efficiency gains across industries.

• Independent analysts recognize the impact of AI on reducing global energy consumption, even as data centers’ energy usage grows.
• NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang emphasizes that accelerated computing is key to meeting the increasing demand for computing power sustainably and cost-effectively.
• As these technologies continue to evolve, they are likely to play an increasingly crucial role in addressing climate change and promoting sustainable growth across sectors.