Let’s Save the Penguins with Green Computing
summary
Presents concrete energy-impact figures for tech (7% of electricity use in 2019; ~70% projected demand increase by 2030; up to 222% rise for data-center consumption in China) and notes that data centers spend ~10% on storage and ~90% on cooling. Describes practical green-computing solutions such as submarine and underground data centers that reuse waste heat, and demonstrates using the Python library codecarbon (decorator or object) integrated into a small Flask API with one or two lines to measure emissions.
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- 0:00Start
- 3:47Greenhouse gases
- 15:165 ideas to be more sustainable
- 31:54Answer and test your knowledge!
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