Cloud Sustainability Watch Blog
AWS wants you to do some green software design
The hyperscalers are working to convince their customers to be highly efficient because demand is outstripping supply.
ExxonMobil builds gas plants for data centers and locks in customers for 30 years
ExxonMobil announced it will build gas-fueled electric plants. And it’s because of data centers.
A photonic chip to vastly reduce the energy demands of AI computations
A photonic chip invention uses light to run all types of neural network computations at very low energy use rates and with speed and accuracy comparable to existing AI chips.
Google builds renewables next to its data centers
Here is an article about Google’s $20B project with Intersect Power to develop wind and power on data center campuses that will skip the multiyear wait for grid connection.
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Our library contains articles, blogs, research, and podcasts about the environmental impact of cloud computing, GenAI, and data centers. Also our favorite go-to sources.
Community organizers emerging in landscape of data center siting
Our ongoing enjoyment of GenAI will require more data center capacity construction, and communities are objecting.
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.
Green Software Development
The Green Software Foundation promotes sustainability as a core priority for software teams, just as important as performance, security, cost and accessibility.
Fantastic 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.
Part 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.