by Susannah Hill | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog
Hi Watchers! Frequently in our corner of the sustainability world, someone will say there should be an Energy Star rating for data centers. There is! (link) It is a project that includes the work of the notable Dr. Emma Strubell, whose research on the environmental...
by Susannah Hill | Nov 12, 2024 | Blog
Hi Watchers! What do you think about the feasibility of changing programmer culture to prioritize emissions and power efficiency? The Green Software Foundation promotes sustainability as a core priority for software teams, just as important as performance,...
by Susannah Hill | Nov 9, 2024 | Blog
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. I was star struck meeting Dr....
by Susannah Hill | Oct 29, 2024 | Blog
Hi Watchers! 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. There is a fantastic chart of how much emissions there was from...
by Susannah Hill | Oct 24, 2024 | Blog
Hi Watchers! 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. This problem is down to renewable energy credits (RECs). RECs emerged as a way to fund the...
by Susannah Hill | Oct 24, 2024 | Blog
Hi Watchers! 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...
