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Moonshadow Reduces Data Carbon Footprint by 90%

By |July 3rd, 2024|

Climate change is recognized globally as a threat to humanity. Almost all industries are working hard to innovate us out of the heat trap. Engineering changes are reducing our carbon footprint from driving vehicles to pouring concrete. There is one area, however, where innovation is leading to a steep increase in carbon emissions: data.

Image and Data courtesy of McKinsey Company

According to McKinsey US data center power consumption increased from six gigawatts in 2014 to 17 gigawatts in 2022. McKinsey projects that it will double again by 2030. Whereas data centers used 3% of power in the US in 2022 this […]

MMZIP Filters Two Billion Waypoints per Hour

By |September 20th, 2023|

When using connected vehicle data for transportation analytics one of the biggest challenges is the sheer size of the data. A typical dataset with a month of data can contain five billion waypoint records and working with datasets this size is difficult and time consuming. The good news is that any individual transportation analytics project dataset only uses a small percentage of the data. For analyzing the freeway use in a county, for instance, we want to create a dataset that only contains the waypoints in the county and only those that are generated while the vehicle was driving on […]