Posts by Susannah Hill
Energy Star ratings for data centers?
Frequently in our corner of the sustainability world, someone will say there should be an Energy Star rating for data centers. There is! At least in some areas.
Read MoreGreen Software Development
The Green Software Foundation promotes sustainability as a core priority for software teams, just as important as performance, security, cost and accessibility.
Read MoreFantastic learning on the environmental impacts of GenAI
Recently I attended the conference “AI and the Environment: Sustaining the Common Good” at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, and it was a fantastic gathering of prominent thinkers on the topic.
Read MorePart 2: How much of hyperscaler emissions is under-reported using RECs?
Bloomberg published a worthwhile article about tech companies using unbundled RECs to claim lower emissions than actual in their sustainability reports. Way lower in the case of Microsoft.
Read MoreGreenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol accounting for RECs prevents transparency
This month brings the report from The Guardian that greenhouse gas emissions from the big tech companies’ owned data centers are 662% higher than reported.
Read MoreNuclear power is additional low carbon electricity
Do you think that carbon-free power from nuclear generation makes possible data center growth that would otherwise be impossible? Amazon and Microsoft are investing in new nuclear generation, and it may be their only path to fully powering their growing data center fleet without growing greenhouse gas emissions.
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