Big Data Berlin

Oh my, such a link baity title, sorry everyone.

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1. Green Clouds in a
   world of
   Blockchains & AI
   Chris Adams
   May 2018
   

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2. Chris Adams:
   @mrchrisadams
   Environmentally focussed
   web generalist
   

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3. Loco2 - Low CO2 travel in
   Europe by train
   TeaLight - Low CO2 cups of tea,
   based on power grid load
   A.M.E.E. (Avoid Mass
   Extinction Engine) - CO2
   calculation APIs
   MastodonC - zero carbon big
   data and data science
   Thermondo - heating
   installations in Germany
   About me
   

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4. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
   @mrchrisadams
   

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5. Yes, it’s happening.
   Yes, it’s us.
   Yes, we’re sure
   

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6. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
   @mrchrisadams
   http://blogs.plos.org/scicomm/2015/08/09/when-scientific-facts-are-not-enough-communicating-the-consensus-on-
   climate-change/
   

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7. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
   @mrchrisadams
   http://www.iea.org/media/news/2017/GlobalCarbonEmissions2.png
   http://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2017/march/iea-finds-co2-emissions-flat-for-third-straight-year-even-as-global-
   economy-grew.html
   

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8. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
   @mrchrisadams
   http://folk.uio.no/roberan/t/global_mitigation_curves.shtml
   

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9. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
   @mrchrisadams
   © 2011-2012 GreenTouch Consortium
   2020 ICT Carbon Footprint
   820m tons CO2
   360m tons CO2
   260m tons CO2
   2007 Worldwide ICT

   carbon footprint:

   2% = 830 m tons CO2
   Comparable to the

   global aviation 

   industry
   Expected to grow 

   to 4% by 2020
   The Climate Group, GeSI
   Report “Smart 2020”, 2008
   Full report - https://www.slideshare.net/greentouch-org/intro-to-green-touch
   

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10. “Since 2012, the amount of compute
    used in the largest AI training runs has
    been increasing exponentially with a
    3.5 month-doubling time (by
    comparison, Moore’s Law had an 18-
    month doubling period)”
    Dario Amodei & Danny Hernandez.
    https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/
    

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11. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
    @mrchrisadams
    https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/
    

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12. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
    @mrchrisadams
    https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/
    

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13. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
    @mrchrisadams
    https://grist.org/article/bitcoins-energy-use-got-studied-and-you-libertarian-nerds-look-even-worse-than-usual/
    

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14. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
    @mrchrisadams
    https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30177-6
    

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15. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
    @mrchrisadams
    https://github.com/productscience/pfw-top-mil
    

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16. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
    @mrchrisadams
    https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610457/at-this-rate-its-going-to-take-nearly-400-
    years-to-transform-the-energy-system/
    

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17. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
    @mrchrisadams
    A mental model for
    thinking about this
    

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18. Building a planet friendly web - May 2018
    @mrchrisadams
    Your Packets
    Your Platform
    Your Process
    

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19. Your platform
    Provider
    Provisioning
    

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20. Your platform
    Provider:
    Where did the power your
    servers run on come from?
    

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21. Power quote
    From 2017 report - http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/click-clean/
    

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22. Your platform
    Provider:
    What if you are the provider?
    From 2017 report - http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/click-clean/
    

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23. Green Grid Association - https://www.thegreengrid.org
    

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24. Your platform
    Provider:
    What if you don’t have direct
    control over where power
    comes from?
    

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25. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/05/11/akamai-pledges-to-source-renewable-energy-for-data-centers
    Contracts for
    difference.
    How Akamai does
    renewable power in data
    centres they don’t own
    

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26. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/05/11/akamai-pledges-to-source-renewable-energy-for-data-centers
    

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27. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/05/11/akamai-pledges-to-source-renewable-energy-for-data-centers
    

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28. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/05/11/akamai-pledges-to-source-renewable-energy-for-data-centers
    

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29. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/05/11/akamai-pledges-to-source-renewable-energy-for-data-centers
    

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30. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/05/11/akamai-pledges-to-source-renewable-energy-for-data-centers
    

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31. Your platform
    Provision:
    How many server resources do
    you use? And when?
    

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32. The power of wireless cloud 2013 (CEET - http://www.ceet.unimelb.edu.au/publications)
    

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33. “many workloads are spiky or
    drop to zero for extended
    periods… applications used in
    the workplace may only be
    active for 40 of the 168 hours in
    a week.”
    Adrian Cockroft
    @adrianco: AWS, ex Netflix
    @mrchrisadams
    https://medium.com/@adrianco/evolution-of-business-logic-from-monoliths-through-microservices-to-functions-
    ff464b95a44d#.4ap421dwr
    

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34. @mrchrisadams
    Zero carbon big data - https://mastodonc.com
    

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35. FaaS / Serverless:
    per request
    scaling*
    

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36. “the technical capabilities of
    serverless might not be that
    exciting, but the financial side
    sure is… Strong financial
    incentives for good design
    practices, and clear financial
    penalties for bad design”
    Gojko Adzic
    @mrchrisadamshttps://gojko.net/2016/08/27/serverless.html
    

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37. When your second biggest cost after
    staff is data centres, you have a very
    good incentive to care about saving
    energy.
    @mrchrisadams
    https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-centre-cooling-bill-40
    

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38. @mrchrisadams
    https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607879/google-reveals-a-powerful-new-ai-chip-and-supercomputer/
    

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39. Your process
    

    Getting around
    Getting shelter
    Getting feedback
    Getting paid
    

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40. Your Platform
    Your Packets
    Your Process
    

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41. Which future
    do we want to
    build?
    

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42. Help me make a free guide - planetfriendlyweb.com
    

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43. Thanks!
    chris@productscience.co.uk
    @mrchrisadams
    

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44. How you can help
    Join the W3C sustainable web design group

    https://www.w3.org/community/sustyweb
    Help me turn this info into a free guide

    planetfriendlyweb.org/contributing
    Keep this conversation going:
    http://bit.ly/susty-ux-slack
    

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45. Credits (noun project)
    

    Your Process - Flowchart - Maria Kislitsina
    https://thenounproject.com/term/flow-chart/904061/
    Your Packets - Network - Marie Van den Broeck
    https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=network&i=381046
    Your Platform - CPU - Dinosoft Labs
    https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=cpu&i=1120852
    Scope 1 - Kettle - Ruben Semedo
    https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=kettle&i=540961
    Scope 2 - Electric Kettle - Aaron K. Kim
    https://thenounproject.com/term/kettle/123921
    Scope 3 - Coffee Cup - Vectors Market
    https://thenounproject.com/term/coffee-takeaway/1203983/
    

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