Big Data Berlin - Speaker Deck

Big Data Berlin

by Chris Adams

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

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Chris Adams: @mrchrisadams Environmentally focussed web generalist

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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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Building a planet friendly web - May 2018 @mrchrisadams

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Your platform Provider Provisioning

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

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

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

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

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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