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In 2021, Chemours made a commitment to pair climate action with community investment. Aligned with the company’s 2030 Corporate Responsibility Commitment (CRC) goals, Chemours partnered with the American Forest Foundation (AFF) to help launch the Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP) in West Virginia—an initiative designed to support family forest owners in implementing management practices that grow the economic and environmental value of their forested properties over time.

Five years later, the results underscore what is possible when climate solutions are built through collaboration and centered on local communities.

Program Growth That Exceeded Early Expectations

What began with a goal of enrolling 50 landowners and 6,500 acres of family-owned forest has grown significantly. As of late 2023, 101 landowners and more than 15,500 acres were enrolled in the program—more than doubling initial targets.

Those enrolled forests are now estimated to store an additional 420,000 tonnes of CO₂e, representing a meaningful contribution to climate mitigation. To put that impact in context, this level of carbon storage is equivalent to removing the emissions associated with burning nearly 470 million pounds of coal from the atmosphere.

Importantly, the program’s success in West Virginia has also helped catalyze additional investment in similar initiatives across Appalachia and beyond.

An Intentional Focus on Communities Navigating Economic Transition

From the outset, Chemours and AFF were deliberate about where the work would take place. Enrollment in West Virginia was focused on Logan, Wyoming, Boone, Fayette, and Kanawha counties—communities that have historically relied on the fossil fuel economy and are navigating significant economic transition as energy systems evolve.

Today, these counties represent a majority of FFCP participation in the state, and the program’s benefits extend beyond environmental outcomes to support economic resilience in regions facing real change.

Forests That Create Value for Families and Communities

The FFCP is designed to deliver tangible benefits to landowners while strengthening sustainable forestry practices. To date, the American Forest Foundation has committed $8.17 million in practice payments to participating landowners in West Virginia.

Those investments support local sustainable forestry jobs, help families build long-term value from land they have stewarded for generations, and reinforce the role that family-owned forests can play in addressing climate challenges at scale.

Measurable Impact, Built Through Partnership

For Chemours employees and stakeholders in West Virginia, this work is more than a sustainability milestone—it is happening in local communities, with neighbors and families directly benefiting from the program’s success.

The American Forest Foundation’s mission has long been to empower family forest landowners to deliver meaningful conservation outcomes. Through this partnership, Chemours has helped advance that mission in a region where climate action and community investment are deeply interconnected.

Five years in, the results offer a clear takeaway: when climate initiatives are designed with communities at the center, the impact is not only meaningful—it is measurable.

In 2021, Chemours made a commitment to pair climate action with community investment. Aligned with the company’s 2030 Corporate Responsibility Commitment (CRC) goals, Chemours partnered with the American Forest Foundation (AFF) to help launch the Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP) in West Virginia—an initiative designed to support family forest owners in implementing management practices that grow the economic and environmental value of their forested properties over time.

Five years later, the results underscore what is possible when climate solutions are built through collaboration and centered on local communities.

Program Growth That Exceeded Early Expectations

What began with a goal of enrolling 50 landowners and 6,500 acres of family-owned forest has grown significantly. As of late 2023, 101 landowners and more than 15,500 acres were enrolled in the program—more than doubling initial targets.

Those enrolled forests are now estimated to store an additional 420,000 tonnes of CO₂e, representing a meaningful contribution to climate mitigation. To put that impact in context, this level of carbon storage is equivalent to removing the emissions associated with burning nearly 470 million pounds of coal from the atmosphere.

Importantly, the program’s success in West Virginia has also helped catalyze additional investment in similar initiatives across Appalachia and beyond.

An Intentional Focus on Communities Navigating Economic Transition

From the outset, Chemours and AFF were deliberate about where the work would take place. Enrollment in West Virginia was focused on Logan, Wyoming, Boone, Fayette, and Kanawha counties—communities that have historically relied on the fossil fuel economy and are navigating significant economic transition as energy systems evolve.

Today, these counties represent a majority of FFCP participation in the state, and the program’s benefits extend beyond environmental outcomes to support economic resilience in regions facing real change.

Forests That Create Value for Families and Communities

The FFCP is designed to deliver tangible benefits to landowners while strengthening sustainable forestry practices. To date, the American Forest Foundation has committed $8.17 million in practice payments to participating landowners in West Virginia.

Those investments support local sustainable forestry jobs, help families build long-term value from land they have stewarded for generations, and reinforce the role that family-owned forests can play in addressing climate challenges at scale.

Measurable Impact, Built Through Partnership

For Chemours employees and stakeholders in West Virginia, this work is more than a sustainability milestone—it is happening in local communities, with neighbors and families directly benefiting from the program’s success.

The American Forest Foundation’s mission has long been to empower family forest landowners to deliver meaningful conservation outcomes. Through this partnership, Chemours has helped advance that mission in a region where climate action and community investment are deeply interconnected.

Five years in, the results offer a clear takeaway: when climate initiatives are designed with communities at the center, the impact is not only meaningful—it is measurable.

In 2021, Chemours made a commitment to pair climate action with community investment. Aligned with the company’s 2030 Corporate Responsibility Commitment (CRC) goals, Chemours partnered with the American Forest Foundation (AFF) to help launch the Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP) in West Virginia—an initiative designed to support family forest owners in implementing management practices that grow the economic and environmental value of their forested properties over time.

Five years later, the results underscore what is possible when climate solutions are built through collaboration and centered on local communities.

Program Growth That Exceeded Early Expectations

What began with a goal of enrolling 50 landowners and 6,500 acres of family-owned forest has grown significantly. As of late 2023, 101 landowners and more than 15,500 acres were enrolled in the program—more than doubling initial targets.

Those enrolled forests are now estimated to store an additional 420,000 tonnes of CO₂e, representing a meaningful contribution to climate mitigation. To put that impact in context, this level of carbon storage is equivalent to removing the emissions associated with burning nearly 470 million pounds of coal from the atmosphere.

Importantly, the program’s success in West Virginia has also helped catalyze additional investment in similar initiatives across Appalachia and beyond.

An Intentional Focus on Communities Navigating Economic Transition

From the outset, Chemours and AFF were deliberate about where the work would take place. Enrollment in West Virginia was focused on Logan, Wyoming, Boone, Fayette, and Kanawha counties—communities that have historically relied on the fossil fuel economy and are navigating significant economic transition as energy systems evolve.

Today, these counties represent a majority of FFCP participation in the state, and the program’s benefits extend beyond environmental outcomes to support economic resilience in regions facing real change.

Forests That Create Value for Families and Communities

The FFCP is designed to deliver tangible benefits to landowners while strengthening sustainable forestry practices. To date, the American Forest Foundation has committed $8.17 million in practice payments to participating landowners in West Virginia.

Those investments support local sustainable forestry jobs, help families build long-term value from land they have stewarded for generations, and reinforce the role that family-owned forests can play in addressing climate challenges at scale.

Measurable Impact, Built Through Partnership

For Chemours employees and stakeholders in West Virginia, this work is more than a sustainability milestone—it is happening in local communities, with neighbors and families directly benefiting from the program’s success.

The American Forest Foundation’s mission has long been to empower family forest landowners to deliver meaningful conservation outcomes. Through this partnership, Chemours has helped advance that mission in a region where climate action and community investment are deeply interconnected.

Five years in, the results offer a clear takeaway: when climate initiatives are designed with communities at the center, the impact is not only meaningful—it is measurable.

NEW YORK, April 20, 2026 /3BL/ – Novata, the leading sustainability management platform for private markets, today announced a significant expansion of the Novata Regulatory Navigator. The solution now includes a Premium tier designed to help organizations remove the heavy lifting of monitoring regulatory noise to take clear, confident action.

As global sustainability regulations increase in complexity, companies and investors face a challenge: determining what applies to them and when. The updated Regulatory Navigator solves this through an AI-powered, expert-validated engine that uses over 30 specific company data points (such as revenue, jurisdiction, and employee count) to pinpoint relevant regulatory obligations.

“Regulatory requirements are no longer just a ‘reporting’ issue; they are a core business risk,” said Caitlin Pentifallo, Novata’s Head of Regulatory Strategy & Sustainability. “We built the Regulatory Navigator to act as an experienced coach for our clients. By combining real-time AI monitoring with our team’s sustainability expertise, we provide the clarity teams need to stop wondering which rules apply and start taking action.”

The Regulatory Navigator is available in two tiers to meet organizations at any stage of their journey:

• Regulatory Navigator (Free): Provides a foundational view of the global regulatory landscape. Users can create a company profile in minutes to understand which regulations apply to them and hone in on country-specific requirements and impact.
• Regulatory Navigator Premium: A comprehensive workflow solution for teams. Additional features include a centralized dashboard with real-time news feeds, a Kanban-style Monitoring Hub to track compliance status, a global monitoring heat map, “Regulation Cards” that provide timelines, source links, and specific applicability criteria for easier tracking, and trend analysis to help teams see around corners on where sustainability policy development is headed.

The Premium version also introduces Organization Structure visualizations, allowing GPs and large parent companies to monitor regulatory exposure across entire portfolios, supply chains, or complex entity hierarchies.

“Sustainability regulations have exploded in complexity over the last several years, not just in volume, but in the demands it places on companies. These are novel legal obligations, often conflicting across jurisdictions, and the pace of change means that simply knowing which rules apply to you has become a serious undertaking in its own right. And knowing which regulations apply is only the first step, actually operationalizing compliance and staying ahead of what’s coming is where most teams are really struggling,” said Beth Meyer, Novata’s Chief Legal Officer. “The Regulatory Navigator helps teams cut through that complexity by providing a clear, centralized view of what applies and when, so they can move forward with confidence and ease.”

Unlike tools that rely solely on automated scraping, the Regulatory Navigator features a “human-in-the-loop” approach. It uses AI to scan global government registries, primary sources, and top-tier news sources, but every insight is reviewed by Novata’s expert team for accuracy and relevance before it reaches the client.

The Premium tier’s trend analysis capability empowers organizations to shift how they are approaching regulatory risk, moving from reactive compliance to proactive strategy. Rather than waiting for rules to land, teams can use emerging policy signals to inform their planning, get ahead of disclosure requirements, and turn regulatory preparedness into a competitive advantage.

To learn more or see how it works, visit Novata’s website.

About Novata

Novata’s solutions make it easy for organizations to achieve their sustainability goals and create value. Our trusted sustainability management platform and advisory practice empowers organizations to automate data collection and reporting, streamline carbon accounting, simplify regulations, benchmark performance, and monitor risk.

Backed by the Ford Foundation, Hamilton Lane, Microsoft, Motive Partners, Omidyar Network, and S&P Global, Novata is majority controlled by mission-driven organizations and its employees, and is a B-Corp-certified public benefit corporation. www.novata.com

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This article is authored by Mauro J. Atalla, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, Trane Technologies

The AI-enabled economy is accelerating at a breakneck pace, but its ultimate speed limit won’t be dictated by software; instead, it will be defined by the necessary physical infrastructure: power, cooling, water and space. At the same time, the increased infrastructure demand challenges the limits of traditional engineering. From climate modeling to advanced biomedical research and physical-AI applications, each breakthrough creates new requirements for power density and data center cooling efficiency.

As Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, I see firsthand that the future of data centers depends not just on isolated technological breakthroughs, but on deep, strategic industry partnerships. This dual role reinforces a core truth: our greatest technological challenges and our most urgent sustainability imperatives are fundamentally intertwined. Meeting the needs of the AI economy in a sustainable fashion requires us to radically rethink how we design, build, and operate these facilities.

Engineering for a constrained world

Unprecedented scale and growth are rapidly shifting the industry’s requirements. To deliver the infrastructure necessary to power this new era, we must engineer solutions that can handle dynamic, high-density workloads while optimizing energy management and power consumption, water usage, and even acoustic profiles and noise generation. Achieving our sustainability goals is a critical imperative that is functionally linked to greater operational efficiency. We must minimize resource use and our physical footprint while maximizing overall reliability and uptime.

No single organization can solve these multifaceted challenges alone. As rack power densities leap forward, innovating at the pace our customers require demands more than the knowledge contained within our own four walls. It requires a holistic ecosystem approach.

Consolidating expertise across the ecosystem

A prime example of this collaborative approach is our work with NVIDIA. Together, we developed the first comprehensive thermal management system reference design for gigawatt-scale AI factories, engineered to support high-density platforms like Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin. By combining Trane Technologies’ advanced HVAC expertise with NVIDIA’s Omniverse-powered digital twin capabilities, we can simulate and optimize the real-world performance of thermal systems before they are installed.

We have since built on this foundation with two new designs and further optimizations. These enhanced reference designs achieve a nearly 10% improvement in overall thermal management performance, effectively freeing up 22 MW of cooling capacity in a 1 GW data center for additional IT capacity. Furthermore, our new 250-MW duplex design delivers 14% higher efficiency with integrated heat recovery, proving that we can drastically increase compute capacity without unnecessarily elevating total data center energy consumption.

But the required ecosystem must be broad and inclusive. We are actively engaging with leading chip manufacturers to ensure our data center cooling systems are adaptable across various hardware architectures. Furthermore, to address the energy demands of modern facilities, we are partnering with specialists in onsite power generation and advanced electrical distribution. These collaborations are essential for creating resilient microgrids, enabling the direct integration of renewable energy sources at the site level, and ensuring that facilities have the highest efficiency, minimizing resource utilization. Beyond the physical hardware, working with technology leaders like Autodesk expands our ability to streamline workflows and democratize the benefits of AI for building owners and operators.

“These new advancements reflect what’s possible when deep expertise and shared purpose come together.”

^{Mauro J. Atalla
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, Trane Technologies}

Bridging the gap between research and deployment

Evolving chip and cooling technologies present both opportunities and risks. Rushed, untested solutions can disrupt operations, while delayed adoption can leave operators lagging behind. Dr. Dereje Agonafer, Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, underscored this during a recent discussion on our Healthy Spaces podcast on data center energy demands: “We need to have a better dialogue between academia and the industry. That’s really the way that our nation can succeed.”

Putting this into practice, we are supporting academic partners at the University of Maryland and UT Arlington, where we are participating in the U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E COOLERCHIPS program. These direct research partnerships accelerate the design process for next-generation facilities, facilitating the rapid development and testing of novel hybrid cooling solutions that drastically reduce energy and water needs.

Connecting data centers to the broader energy grid

As these partnerships move the field forward, we are collectively unlocking new levels of efficiency across the entire digital infrastructure landscape. Instead of viewing data centers solely as massive power consumers, engineers and policymakers are increasingly recognizing them as integral parts of a larger energy ecosystem.

Through advanced waste heat recovery and redistribution, data centers can actively contribute back to the network. By integrating closed-loop and hybrid liquid cooling systems, we enable localized benefits—capturing low-grade heat and using it to supply thermal energy to local communities. A prime example of this is our work with Infomaniak, a data center operator in Geneva, Switzerland. Together with the developer and the local community, we designed a system using advanced Trane heat pumps that recovers virtually 100 percent of the facility’s waste heat. That thermal energy is injected directly into the city’s district heating network, supplying enough energy to warm 6,000 homes in the winter or provide 20,000 hot showers in the summer. This is how we drive more efficient community integration.

The future of collaborative innovation

A clear lesson from the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure has emerged: successful innovation is measured by resilience, adaptability and positive real-world impact. The race to build the next generation of data centers is fundamentally a race for intelligent resource stewardship and reliable design.

With billions in capital at stake and high execution risks, enduring progress is only possible through deep, cross-industry collaborations capable of reliably delivering the speed, scalability, and vision that tomorrow’s digital solutions and infrastructure demands. The demands of an AI-driven world require more than just hardware; they call for new alliances, multidisciplinary approaches and human ingenuity. Our commitment remains clear: to bring people, ideas and expertise together to engineer and scale sustainable solutions.

See how Trane Technologies transforms innovation into measurable results, advancing efficiency, sustainability and performance across industries. – Learn more about our sustainable innovation.

This article is authored by Mauro J. Atalla, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, Trane Technologies

The AI-enabled economy is accelerating at a breakneck pace, but its ultimate speed limit won’t be dictated by software; instead, it will be defined by the necessary physical infrastructure: power, cooling, water and space. At the same time, the increased infrastructure demand challenges the limits of traditional engineering. From climate modeling to advanced biomedical research and physical-AI applications, each breakthrough creates new requirements for power density and data center cooling efficiency.

As Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, I see firsthand that the future of data centers depends not just on isolated technological breakthroughs, but on deep, strategic industry partnerships. This dual role reinforces a core truth: our greatest technological challenges and our most urgent sustainability imperatives are fundamentally intertwined. Meeting the needs of the AI economy in a sustainable fashion requires us to radically rethink how we design, build, and operate these facilities.

Engineering for a constrained world

Unprecedented scale and growth are rapidly shifting the industry’s requirements. To deliver the infrastructure necessary to power this new era, we must engineer solutions that can handle dynamic, high-density workloads while optimizing energy management and power consumption, water usage, and even acoustic profiles and noise generation. Achieving our sustainability goals is a critical imperative that is functionally linked to greater operational efficiency. We must minimize resource use and our physical footprint while maximizing overall reliability and uptime.

No single organization can solve these multifaceted challenges alone. As rack power densities leap forward, innovating at the pace our customers require demands more than the knowledge contained within our own four walls. It requires a holistic ecosystem approach.

Consolidating expertise across the ecosystem

A prime example of this collaborative approach is our work with NVIDIA. Together, we developed the first comprehensive thermal management system reference design for gigawatt-scale AI factories, engineered to support high-density platforms like Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin. By combining Trane Technologies’ advanced HVAC expertise with NVIDIA’s Omniverse-powered digital twin capabilities, we can simulate and optimize the real-world performance of thermal systems before they are installed.

We have since built on this foundation with two new designs and further optimizations. These enhanced reference designs achieve a nearly 10% improvement in overall thermal management performance, effectively freeing up 22 MW of cooling capacity in a 1 GW data center for additional IT capacity. Furthermore, our new 250-MW duplex design delivers 14% higher efficiency with integrated heat recovery, proving that we can drastically increase compute capacity without unnecessarily elevating total data center energy consumption.

But the required ecosystem must be broad and inclusive. We are actively engaging with leading chip manufacturers to ensure our data center cooling systems are adaptable across various hardware architectures. Furthermore, to address the energy demands of modern facilities, we are partnering with specialists in onsite power generation and advanced electrical distribution. These collaborations are essential for creating resilient microgrids, enabling the direct integration of renewable energy sources at the site level, and ensuring that facilities have the highest efficiency, minimizing resource utilization. Beyond the physical hardware, working with technology leaders like Autodesk expands our ability to streamline workflows and democratize the benefits of AI for building owners and operators.

“These new advancements reflect what’s possible when deep expertise and shared purpose come together.”

^{Mauro J. Atalla
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, Trane Technologies}

Bridging the gap between research and deployment

Evolving chip and cooling technologies present both opportunities and risks. Rushed, untested solutions can disrupt operations, while delayed adoption can leave operators lagging behind. Dr. Dereje Agonafer, Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, underscored this during a recent discussion on our Healthy Spaces podcast on data center energy demands: “We need to have a better dialogue between academia and the industry. That’s really the way that our nation can succeed.”

Putting this into practice, we are supporting academic partners at the University of Maryland and UT Arlington, where we are participating in the U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E COOLERCHIPS program. These direct research partnerships accelerate the design process for next-generation facilities, facilitating the rapid development and testing of novel hybrid cooling solutions that drastically reduce energy and water needs.

Connecting data centers to the broader energy grid

As these partnerships move the field forward, we are collectively unlocking new levels of efficiency across the entire digital infrastructure landscape. Instead of viewing data centers solely as massive power consumers, engineers and policymakers are increasingly recognizing them as integral parts of a larger energy ecosystem.

Through advanced waste heat recovery and redistribution, data centers can actively contribute back to the network. By integrating closed-loop and hybrid liquid cooling systems, we enable localized benefits—capturing low-grade heat and using it to supply thermal energy to local communities. A prime example of this is our work with Infomaniak, a data center operator in Geneva, Switzerland. Together with the developer and the local community, we designed a system using advanced Trane heat pumps that recovers virtually 100 percent of the facility’s waste heat. That thermal energy is injected directly into the city’s district heating network, supplying enough energy to warm 6,000 homes in the winter or provide 20,000 hot showers in the summer. This is how we drive more efficient community integration.

The future of collaborative innovation

A clear lesson from the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure has emerged: successful innovation is measured by resilience, adaptability and positive real-world impact. The race to build the next generation of data centers is fundamentally a race for intelligent resource stewardship and reliable design.

With billions in capital at stake and high execution risks, enduring progress is only possible through deep, cross-industry collaborations capable of reliably delivering the speed, scalability, and vision that tomorrow’s digital solutions and infrastructure demands. The demands of an AI-driven world require more than just hardware; they call for new alliances, multidisciplinary approaches and human ingenuity. Our commitment remains clear: to bring people, ideas and expertise together to engineer and scale sustainable solutions.

See how Trane Technologies transforms innovation into measurable results, advancing efficiency, sustainability and performance across industries. – Learn more about our sustainable innovation.

Originally published by GoDaddy

SAN FRANCISCO and TEMPE, Ariz., April 20, 2026 /3BL/ – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, and GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY), global leader in domains and tech for small businesses, today announced a strategic partnership to help give website owners and AI developers transparency and control over how their content is used by AI, while also supporting standards to better identify AI agents. Together, the companies aim to help bring identity, trust, and access to the agentic open web.

The Internet is currently undergoing a fundamental shift, expanding from a web of pages designed for humans to a web that is also designed to support agents acting on behalf of humans. Without clear standards and tools, this transition risks overwhelming website owners, including small businesses and content creators, with unidentifiable and potentially malicious bot traffic. There needs to be a way to ensure that website owners have the tools to easily identify, manage, and trust AI traffic.

Visibility and Control for AI Crawlers

Starting today, GoDaddy will integrate Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control into its website hosting platform, helping website owners, including small businesses and creators, globally gain visibility and control over how automated AI-powered crawlers access their website content. This helps website owners manage which AI crawlers can collect their information while helping keep their site protected.

Identity and Transparency for AI Agents

Beyond just controlling crawls to a site, the industry needs standardized ways to verify who operates an agent and what an agent is allowed to do. However, enforcing consistent identification methods for bots and agents that want to interact with web applications in a safe manner is a more nuanced problem. ANS is a global open standard introduced by GoDaddy that is designed to support consistent naming, verification, and discovery for AI agents across systems, using proven open standards, domain name system (DNS), and public key infrastructure (PKI). ANS enables website owners to distinguish legitimate AI agents from unidentified AI agents, including malicious impersonators, on the open web.

Cloudflare is committed to a transparent agentic web and supports ANS and the development of a broad range of verifiable agent identity standards. In 2025, Cloudflare also introduced Web Bot Auth as a new method of using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic, as well as a Signature Agent Card to help agent developers transparently share their agent’s identity and purpose. With an open ecosystem of standards and methods for identifying agents, the agentic web can evolve with transparency built in by default.

Together, Cloudflare and GoDaddy aim to provide the technical architecture to move into the agentic web era and help to:

• Enforce a permission-based model for the agentic web: GoDaddy is integrating Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control directly into its hosting experience. This allows any website owner to set their own terms—choosing to allow, block, or signal that payment is required—protecting the value of their content.
• Build trust and transparency into AI-native commerce: Identifying a bot is no longer enough; we must enable them to transact. By supporting ANS and Web Bot Auth, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are providing the verifiable identity layer needed for a functional digital marketplace. This ensures that when an agent makes a request—whether for a data query or an autonomous purchase—its identity is cryptographically signed, creating the trust necessary for a sustainable value exchange.
• Secure a fair value exchange in the Answer Engine era: As the Internet shifts from search-and-click to AI-generated answers, the traditional traffic-based business model is breaking. This partnership provides one technical solution to this economic challenge. By combining granular audit logs with transparent agent identity, GoDaddy and Cloudflare are helping enable an ecosystem where human-generated content remains the lifeblood of the web but is protected and compensated in an AI-first world.

“The Internet is evolving into a high-velocity, AI-driven ecosystem, and that requires a new kind of transparent infrastructure,” said Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudflare. “By putting tools like AI Crawl Control and open standards into the hands of website owners, we are providing essential underpinnings for a new Internet business model. We want to ensure that every creator has the tools to verify who is interacting with their site, while giving legitimate AI agents a secure, transparent way to participate in a thriving open web.”

“By working with Cloudflare on AI Crawl Control and championing the Agent Name Service, an open standard giving every agent a verifiable identity built on DNS, we are providing our customers the transparency they need to thrive in an AI-first world,” said GoDaddy Chief Strategy Officer, Jared Sine. “We move at the speed of the Internet, and we’re working with the broader industry to ensure the agentic open web does too.”

To learn more, check out the following resources:

• ANS Open Standard
• Web Bot Auth
• Signature Agent Card
• AI Crawl Control

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.

Learn more about Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud at cloudflare.com/connectivity-cloud. Learn more about the latest Internet trends and insights at https://radar.cloudflare.com.

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About GoDaddy

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start, grow, and scale their businesses. People come to GoDaddy to name their idea, build a website and logo, sell their products and services and accept payments. GoDaddy Airo®, the company’s AI-powered experience, makes growing a small business faster and easier by helping them to get their idea online in minutes, drive traffic and boost sales. GoDaddy’s expert guides are available 24/7 to provide assistance. To learn more about the company, visit www.GoDaddy.com.

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Originally published by GoDaddy

SAN FRANCISCO and TEMPE, Ariz., April 20, 2026 /3BL/ – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, and GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY), global leader in domains and tech for small businesses, today announced a strategic partnership to help give website owners and AI developers transparency and control over how their content is used by AI, while also supporting standards to better identify AI agents. Together, the companies aim to help bring identity, trust, and access to the agentic open web.

The Internet is currently undergoing a fundamental shift, expanding from a web of pages designed for humans to a web that is also designed to support agents acting on behalf of humans. Without clear standards and tools, this transition risks overwhelming website owners, including small businesses and content creators, with unidentifiable and potentially malicious bot traffic. There needs to be a way to ensure that website owners have the tools to easily identify, manage, and trust AI traffic.

Visibility and Control for AI Crawlers

Starting today, GoDaddy will integrate Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control into its website hosting platform, helping website owners, including small businesses and creators, globally gain visibility and control over how automated AI-powered crawlers access their website content. This helps website owners manage which AI crawlers can collect their information while helping keep their site protected.

Identity and Transparency for AI Agents

Beyond just controlling crawls to a site, the industry needs standardized ways to verify who operates an agent and what an agent is allowed to do. However, enforcing consistent identification methods for bots and agents that want to interact with web applications in a safe manner is a more nuanced problem. ANS is a global open standard introduced by GoDaddy that is designed to support consistent naming, verification, and discovery for AI agents across systems, using proven open standards, domain name system (DNS), and public key infrastructure (PKI). ANS enables website owners to distinguish legitimate AI agents from unidentified AI agents, including malicious impersonators, on the open web.

Cloudflare is committed to a transparent agentic web and supports ANS and the development of a broad range of verifiable agent identity standards. In 2025, Cloudflare also introduced Web Bot Auth as a new method of using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic, as well as a Signature Agent Card to help agent developers transparently share their agent’s identity and purpose. With an open ecosystem of standards and methods for identifying agents, the agentic web can evolve with transparency built in by default.

Together, Cloudflare and GoDaddy aim to provide the technical architecture to move into the agentic web era and help to:

• Enforce a permission-based model for the agentic web: GoDaddy is integrating Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control directly into its hosting experience. This allows any website owner to set their own terms—choosing to allow, block, or signal that payment is required—protecting the value of their content.
• Build trust and transparency into AI-native commerce: Identifying a bot is no longer enough; we must enable them to transact. By supporting ANS and Web Bot Auth, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are providing the verifiable identity layer needed for a functional digital marketplace. This ensures that when an agent makes a request—whether for a data query or an autonomous purchase—its identity is cryptographically signed, creating the trust necessary for a sustainable value exchange.
• Secure a fair value exchange in the Answer Engine era: As the Internet shifts from search-and-click to AI-generated answers, the traditional traffic-based business model is breaking. This partnership provides one technical solution to this economic challenge. By combining granular audit logs with transparent agent identity, GoDaddy and Cloudflare are helping enable an ecosystem where human-generated content remains the lifeblood of the web but is protected and compensated in an AI-first world.

“The Internet is evolving into a high-velocity, AI-driven ecosystem, and that requires a new kind of transparent infrastructure,” said Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudflare. “By putting tools like AI Crawl Control and open standards into the hands of website owners, we are providing essential underpinnings for a new Internet business model. We want to ensure that every creator has the tools to verify who is interacting with their site, while giving legitimate AI agents a secure, transparent way to participate in a thriving open web.”

“By working with Cloudflare on AI Crawl Control and championing the Agent Name Service, an open standard giving every agent a verifiable identity built on DNS, we are providing our customers the transparency they need to thrive in an AI-first world,” said GoDaddy Chief Strategy Officer, Jared Sine. “We move at the speed of the Internet, and we’re working with the broader industry to ensure the agentic open web does too.”

To learn more, check out the following resources:

• ANS Open Standard
• Web Bot Auth
• Signature Agent Card
• AI Crawl Control

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Local leaders across Georgia can now see a more detailed picture of what impacts to expect from climate change with a new map tool released by Drawdown Georgia.

The group, which aims to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled the maps at the Super South Summit in Atlanta last week.

Scientists warn that Georgia can expect hotter, longer summers, more extreme weather, more rainfall overall and also longer droughts. But those impacts will vary across the state.

Now, researchers have found ways to scale down big-picture data so they can project not just how climate change is affecting Georgia or the Southeast broadly, but also how it’s changing conditions in specific locations.

Read the full story on WABE.

Local leaders across Georgia can now see a more detailed picture of what impacts to expect from climate change with a new map tool released by Drawdown Georgia.

The group, which aims to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled the maps at the Super South Summit in Atlanta last week.

Scientists warn that Georgia can expect hotter, longer summers, more extreme weather, more rainfall overall and also longer droughts. But those impacts will vary across the state.

Now, researchers have found ways to scale down big-picture data so they can project not just how climate change is affecting Georgia or the Southeast broadly, but also how it’s changing conditions in specific locations.

Read the full story on WABE.