Corporate Sustainability Report - Flipbook - Page 24
Sustainability Report
However, this would have been energy
ine昀케cient, complex, and a worse experience
for customers than partnering with trusted
technology providers who are already doing
this and bene昀椀ting from the economies of
scale of running AI services.
When embarking on our AI journey, we
selected trusted sustainability technology
providers with noteworthy sustainability
commitments toward carbon neutrality, which
were assessed as part of our sustainable
procurement process.
In order to ensure that our AI usage does
not create any signi昀椀cant harm to the
environment and its natural resources, our
commercial models and AI policy are aligned
with responsible use practices.
We are committed to ensuring we develop
and use AI in a responsible and ethical way
that is explainable and understandable, while
managing the risks associated with AI in a
systemic manner.
Arti昀椀cial Intelligence
Access acknowledges the environmental
implications associated with the growing
data centres capacity needed to support AI
technologies, particularly including energy
demand, water usage, and increased GHG
emissions, all of which have a signi昀椀cant
impact on our environment and communities.
However, there are already existing
technologies and solutions that are enabling
data centres to have a lesser impact on our
environment, and additional innovative
solutions are evolving quickly.
The rapid advancement of digital
infrastructure brings with it both tremendous
opportunity together with signi昀椀cant
responsibility for us, and our business
partners.
We, as a software company, rely on data
centres to power our products and services,
enable our AI technology development,
continue our digital innovation, and ensure
the continuity of our business.
As a company, we must innovate and
participate in AI transformation, or we will fail
to meet our customers’ expectations. In our AI
transformation we could have built our own
generative AI engine, trained it, and powered it
in our existing data centres.
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