Brian Ellsworth
Writer and Editor at Freelance
Ex Reuters correspondent. Lived in Venezuela for 18 years and it still feels like home. Now back in my native DC.
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4 days ago |
latamprompt.substack.com | Brian Ellsworth
Software trained to recognize gunshots is helping rangers in Argentina’s Iguazú National Park detect poaching of endangered jaguars, reports La Nación. In the Paraná Delta, researchers used AI to process 13,000 hours of recordings that included brief sounds of gunfire, and used it to create a map of illegal poaching of Argentina 250 surviving adult jaguars.
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1 week ago |
latamprompt.substack.com | Brian Ellsworth
Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes has launched a plan to build Latin America's largest data center cluster, dubbed "Rio AI City."The facility will be located at the site of the former Olympic Village in Barra da Tijuca. It’s expected to open in 2027 with an initial capacity of 1.8 gigawatts, expanding to 3 GW by 2032, Paes said at the Rio Web Summit. Data center capacity is typically measured by total power usage, split between computing and cooling systems.
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2 weeks ago |
latamprompt.substack.com | Brian Ellsworth
LatAm Prompt tracks what Latin America is doing in AI — and what AI is doing in Latin America. Artificial Intelligence will consume 5% of electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2035, according to a report by Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE). That’s over 120 terawatt-hours annually, more than the total electricity Chile produces in a year. The region’s 455 AI data centers already account for 1.6% of the region’s energy use.
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2 weeks ago |
latamprompt.substack.com | Brian Ellsworth
Welcome to LatAm Prompt—your window into how Latin America is deploying, innovating, and regulating artificial intelligence. I’m a communications advisor and speechwriter at the Inter-American Development Bank. Previously, I spent 17 years as a Reuters correspondent—almost all of them in Venezuela—and I’m still a journalist at heart.
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May 5, 2024 |
americasquarterly.org | Brian Ellsworth |Emmanuel Joseph
Reading Time: 4 minutesLANCASTER, Barbados — A new kind of house is under construction in the western Barbados district of Lancaster. These homes—152 of them—are powered, and financed, by solar energy. Rooftop solar panels sell energy to the national grid, allowing the houses to be sold below market price to first-time home buyers. And the houses are designed with shatterproof windows and solid concrete walls to withstand Category 3 hurricanes.
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This seems like an astounding figure --> "#AI will account for 5% of electricity consumption in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2035, according to the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE)." https://t.co/1QFHR0qWjS
Venezuelan motorcycle drivers celebrating on 14th St in DC circa 10:30 pm. The country is still waiting for an official announcement of the results of the presidential election. https://t.co/AkLq5iMXG7
RT @raulstolk: Cómo no querer devolverse demasiado. https://t.co/tFTCKQUvdO
