IBM Leverages AI To Predict Climate Change That Disrupts Chip Production

IBM launches AI-based tools to help companies assess and mitigate climate change risks. (photo: unsplash)

JAKARTA - Technology company International Business Machines (IBM) has just launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tool to help companies assess and reduce climate change risks and their carbon footprint.

Dubbed the Environmental Intelligence Suite (EIS), which combines AI, weather data, climate risk analytics, and carbon accounting capabilities, the EIS can be used to help companies assess their impact on the planet.

Climate change resulting in extreme weather affects component shortages globally, disrupting production, driving up costs and prices. At the same time, buyers are looking for, even willing to pay dearly for environmentally friendly products.

Furthermore, EIS leverages existing weather data from IBM, along with technologies developed by IBM Research. Through APIs, dashboards, maps, and alerts, the platform provides recommendations aimed at addressing immediate challenges as well as the company's long-term planning and strategy.

With EIS, climate and data scientists can analyze environmental datasets and use new climate risk modeling frameworks, to generate data on future fire and flood risks.

They can also take advantage of natural language processing and automation features designed to help estimate carbon emissions and identify opportunities to reduce emissions.

This technology can also be used by retailers. They can use EIS for deliveries and predict severe weather-related supply disruptions, while energy companies and utilities can use it to determine where to trim vegetation around power lines.

"IBM brings together the power of AI and hybrid cloud to provide businesses with environmental intelligence designed to help them improve environmental performance and reporting, create more efficient business operations to reduce resource consumption, and plan for resilience in the face of climate disruption," said general manager of applications. IBM Kareem Yusuf's AI and blockchain as quoted from Computing, Thursday, October 14.

Google Also Has Climate Change Friendly Technology

IBM joins a growing list of companies using their technology to fight climate change. Google is also releasing a set of tools for customers to monitor their emissions related to the Google Cloud Platform and is working with Salesforce so that these numbers can be exported to the Salesforce Sustainability Cloud.

Google will now notify customers about the carbon footprint of idle or abandoned projects still running on its servers. Some clients will also be able to use Google Earth Engine to achieve results similar to IBM's EIS.

It also works to track, monitor, and predict changes in the Earth's surface due to extreme weather events or human-caused activities, using maps, AI and BigQuery.