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New York named as one of the world ’ s top Smart Cities by Juniper Research said Research Co-author Mike Bainbridge . “ The top cities in our recent ranking are finding innovative ways to leverage that technology to deliver observable benefits for their citizens as well .”
In addition to these rankings , the research found that Smart City initiatives will generate almost US $ 70 billion in spend annually by 2026 ; up from US $ 35 billion in 2021 .
Juniper Research has ranked New York as one of the world ’ s top Smart Cities for 2022 .
The top five Smart Cities are named as : Shanghai , Seoul , Barcelona , Beijing and New York . The ranking of 50 world cities is based on an evaluation of many different aspects of Smart Cities , covering transportation and infrastructure , energy and lighting , city management and technology , and urban connectivity .
“ Many cities have deployed technology and data to help local authorities reduce environmental impact and energy usage ,”
Much of this will focus on smart grid initiatives , which will save over 1,000 TWh of electricity in 2026 ; equivalent to more than five years of energy consumption by Greater London at present levels .
Many areas of Smart City development are still in their early stages , particularly outside the leading cities , so initial roll-outs still make up much of the market . Juniper Research notes that this means savings made through Smart City technologies will remain high .
Pure Storage partners with Meta on AI Research SuperCluster ( RSC )
Pure Storage has announced its role in Meta ’ s new AI Research SuperCluster ( RSC ) which Meta believes will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world .
RSC is helping Meta ’ s AI researchers build new and better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples , work across hundreds of different languages , seamlessly analyze text , images and video together and develop new Augmented Reality tools .
RSC will pave the way toward building technologies for Meta ’ s next major computing platform , the Metaverse , where AI-driven applications and products will play an important role .
Meta chose Pure as it needed a storage partner that can deliver robust and scalable storage capabilities to power RSC . With FlashArray and FlashBlade , RSC will have unparalleled performance to rapidly analyze both structured and unstructured data , underpinned by Pure ’ s foundation of simplicity , reliability and sustainability .
Rob Lee , CTO , Pure Storage , said : “ The technologies powering the Metaverse will require massively powerful computing solutions capable of instantly analyzing ever increasing amounts of data . Meta ’ s RSC is a breakthrough in supercomputing that will lead to new technologies and customer experiences enabled by AI .
“ We are thrilled to be a part of this project and look forward to seeing the progress Meta ’ s AI researchers will make .”
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