by Susannah Hill | Dec 20, 2024 | Blog
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....
by Susannah Hill | Dec 17, 2024 | Blog
Hi Watchers! ExxonMobil announced it will build an electric power utility. And it’s because of data centers. The big tech companies are strongly committed to renewables. And as data centers grow to 2+% of global electricity demand, these zero emissions...
by Susannah Hill | Dec 12, 2024 | Blog
Hi Watchers! For those who believe or hope that we will innovate our way out of the steep energy consumption of future GenAI data centers, here is good news from my alma mater MIT. A photonic chip invention uses light to run all types of neural network computations at...
by Susannah Hill | Dec 11, 2024 | Blog
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...
by Susannah Hill | Nov 26, 2024 | Blog
Hi Watchers! The Cloud Sustainability Watch online library is available on Padlet for you to find everything about environmental issues around online computing, the cloud, GenAI, power generation, and water. Read articles, research, blogs, and listen to podcasts to...
by Susannah Hill | Nov 22, 2024 | Blog
Hi Watchers! This month in speaking engagements, audiences have asked if I’ve heard about community organizers pushing back on new data center facility construction. Our ongoing enjoyment of GenAI will require more data center capacity construction unless new...
