Smart Management for AI Power Consumption

A pair of BU ECE faculty researchers are teaming up to work on a solution that will be environmentally sustainable … and help to sustain AI’s continued growth.

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Research Program Helps Bridge the Opportunity Gap for Young Engineers

When Perales came to Boston University to study electrical and biomedical engineering—the first in her family to go to college—she looked for ways to have an immediate impact.
This past year, Perales applied for a BU College of Engineering–affiliated program, Research Engineering and Mentoring-Includes (REM-Includes), designed to give first-generation and low-income college students their first taste of lab time.

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Is AI Slowing Climate Progress? It’s Complicated

For over a decade, Ayse Coskun has studied the relationship between electric grids and data centers—the sprawling warehouses that house equipment necessary to maintain the internet and computing infrastructure. In years past, grid operators have been able to plan for and meet energy demands from data centers—but then artificial intelligence (AI) boomed.

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