Starks: Tech Must Keep Up With Clean Energy Transition
The FCC should ensure that connected technologies keep pace with other industries in transitioning to clean energy, said FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks in remarks Thursday at the 2024 U.S. Tech for Climate Action Conference. “We have to make sure that…
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next-generation standards -- 6G and beyond -- double-down on energy efficiency,” Starks said. “As work on 6G standards-setting continues, now is exactly the right time to throw your weight behind sustainability.” Starks also said that the tech industry should bring clean energy “capabilities we know are possible to market three, five, or seven years earlier than they would have been otherwise.” Tech companies “have to be a backer, not a bottleneck,” Starks said.