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Green Clouds in a world of Blockchains & AI Chris
Adams May 2018 -
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 -
Building a planet friendly web - May 2018 @mrchrisadams http://www.iea.org/media/news/2017/GlobalCarbonEmissions2.png
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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 -
“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/ -
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/ -
Building a planet friendly web - May 2018 @mrchrisadams A
mental model for thinking about this -
Building a planet friendly web - May 2018 @mrchrisadams Your
Packets Your Platform Your Process -
Your platform Provider: What if you are the provider? From
2017 report - http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/click-clean/ -
Your platform Provider: What if you don’t have direct control
over where power comes from? -
“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 -
“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 -
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 -
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 -
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/