The environmental impact of cloud computing

The environmental impact of cloud computing

Hi Watchers! Since the rise of the internet made data centers a necessity, the facilities have grown in number, size, and capacity. The explosion of streaming, social media, e-commerce, and more have made data centers central to the modern economy. In recent years,...
AWS wants you to do some green software design

AWS wants you to do some green software design

Hi Watchers! AWS published this white paper that includes their “shared responsibility model” for cloud sustainability. In the model, customers are responsible for optimizing workloads and resource utilization, and minimizing the total resources required....
Google builds renewables next to its data centers

Google builds renewables next to its data centers

Hi Watchers! It’s getting to be crunch time for hyperscalers to find renewables, and even the generation construction projects they partner on are tough to get connected to the grid. Here is an article about Google’s $20B project with Intersect Power to...