Go Green: Reducing Emissions, Costs & Greenwashing
summary
IT operations produce 4–6% of global emissions today and could reach 10–14% by 2030, with data centers often running at 15–20% utilization and typical rack servers carrying ~7 tonnes embodied CO2; right‑sizing and shutting idle hardware cut emissions and costs by roughly 50–60%, language rewrites rarely pay off, cloud billing lacks real‑time carbon metrics so use tools like Kepler, ScandER or Ether for energy visibility, and apply carbon‑aware scheduling and extended hardware lifetimes to reduce impact.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:02Is the climate really changing?
- 4:50What governments are doing
- 6:13IT industry challenges
- 10:12Wrong ways to reduce emissions
- 12:55IT emissions
- 18:21Lean vs. agile
- 23:56Measurement tools
- 32:28Wrap up
- 34:59Some random example
- 40:00What can I do now?
- 40:20Outro
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