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>>live from San Francisco. It's the Q covering Micron Insight 2019 >>Not to You, by Micron. >>Welcome back to San Francisco, everybody. This is a Micron Insight 2019 and you're watching the Cube, the leader in live coverage on Day Volonte with my co host, David Floyd. Di Mooney is here. She's the executive director of Micron gives. That's right. Give us the story. What's happening with Micron gives Tech for good. We love the tech for good stories. Tech companies are really taking this seriously. This is not just lip service. Give us the update. >>That's right. That's right. We're so proud of our company that they established a foundation 20 years ago to give back to our global communities. And since then we have given $115 million away and over 10,000 grands. So we have seen a lot of different opportunities in our global communities, and it's just been fabulous that our company supports >>you talk today about water dot or what's going on there. Why is that important in what your role there. >>So what we did is we started taking a look at an organization that we have. We have started recently binning beam or engaged with basic human needs and the grants that those support And when we were taking a look at, Really, what is the primary basic human need? Way discovered? It really is the need for water, and there are millions of people that cannot access this precious resource, and it's just was really surprising to us to think way, take it for granted so much. But yet it is very difficult to get. So as we took a look at this, there was a lot of information that this organization collects. And so we thought, Well, this will be a great opportunity for us to utilize information to enrich and bring in some of our advanced computing expertise along with our philanthropy, help them reach their mission even greater. >>This is huge. I was an event earlier this week, and the keynote speaker was an ultra marathoner, and he literally at one point he ran 4500 miles across the continent of Africa. He and two other ultra runners and people were asking what was The biggest challenge was that the heat was the painting. You know, the biggest challenge was see the challenges of of the community's getting part of the water. That was the number one thing that you know. He left the impression So I mean, this is a huge global problem. >>It really is. And our manufacturing operations were global, and we are located in water scarce areas of the world. And so what really became you know, it's a Micron issue to one of our biggest environmental issues that we talked about, and water dot org's has just been a >>leader in this space, and it has been just fabulous to work with on >>really, they have so much passion and dedication towards this. They've been ableto help. 22 million people already. >>All right, so they're lining up for the main stage. Just give us real quick some of the grants that you guys have. >>Last year at this event, we announced our advancing curiosity, and we announced three recipients last year, and since then we have four more. That's U C L. A. All right T, University of Texas at Austin and University of Washington. >>Awesome. That's great. Listen, congratulations. D on all your great work. We really appreciate your ticket sometime in the queue. All right, and thank you for watching her body. We're back with our next guest from Micron inside. 2019 on the Cube, right back.

Published Date : Oct 24 2019

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It's the Q covering the leader in live coverage on Day Volonte with my co host, David Floyd. And since then we have given $115 million away and over 10,000 Why is that important in what your role and the grants that those support And when we were taking a look at, and he literally at one point he ran 4500 miles across the continent of Africa. And so what really became you know, it's a Micron issue to one of our biggest environmental really, they have so much passion and dedication towards this. Just give us real quick some of the grants that you guys have. and we announced three recipients last year, and since then we have four more. 2019 on the Cube,

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