by Susannah Hill | Feb 20, 2025 | Blog
Hi Watchers! A pop quiz: Who controls the growth trajectory of GHG emissions and power consumption by data centers? (a) Amazon and other big tech companies(b) OpenAI and other GenAI companies(c) corporate IT managers It’s C.Every decision to put up a cloud...
by Susannah Hill | Feb 20, 2025 | Blog
Hi Watchers! The superiority of smaller, specialized, more accurate AI models continues to gain attention. Thank you Dr Sasha Luccioni and the dedicated AI sustainability folks at HuggingFace. We now have the AI Energy Score. https://lnkd.in/g7PsefcH Developers can...
by Susannah Hill | Feb 9, 2025 | Blog
Hi Watchers! Chevron is leading a partnership to build enough gas-fueled power capacity for 3.5 million homes—alongside new data centers. Generating the full 4GW of electricity from natural gas (specifically, the potent greenhouse gas methane) will emit plenty of...
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...
