Keynote: Environmental Sustainability in the Cloud Is Not a Mythical Creature - Rimma Iontel, Red Hat; Tammy McClellan, Microsoft; Marlow Weston, Intel; Niki Manoledaki, Grafana Labs; Frederick Kautz, Director of R&D, TestifySec
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CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG
GitHub repository: https://github.com/cncf/tag-env-sustainability
Slack: #tag-environmental-sustainability and #wg-green-reviews slack channels on slack.cncf.io
Meetings are every 1st and 3rd Wed at 8am PST on Zoom.
Green Software Foundation
Green Software for Practitioners (LFC131) - Linux Foundation - Training
Software Carbon Intensity guidance: https://sci-guide.greensoftware.foundation/
Principle of Green Software: https://learn.greensoftware.foundation/
“Why does sustainability matter?”
“Warming in many regions has already exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.” UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
“Data centers consume 1-2% of global power.” International Energy Agency 2023) https://www.iea.org/energy-system/buildings/data-centres-and-data-transmission-networks
“VM rightsizing achieved 45% carbon reduction.” Green Software Foundation: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/sci-guide/blob/dev/use-case-submissions/dow-msft-Graph-DB.md
“Telecom operators consume 3% of global power.” GSMA
Tooling
SCI - https://greensoftware.foundation/articles/software-carbon-intensity-sci-specification-project
Kepler - https://www.cncf.io/projects/kepler/
KEDA - https://keda.sh/
Reading Lists
"Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks" IEA (last update on 11 July 2023)
“Rapid improvements in energy efficiency have, however, helped moderate growth in energy demand from data centres and data transmission networks, which each account for 1-1.5% of global electricity use.”
"Sources of data center energy estimates: A comprehensive review" David Mytton (2022)
Stubborn Optimism
The All We Can Save Project: https://www.allwecansave.earth/
"The Future We Choose" Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac (2021)
Global Optimism: https://www.globaloptimism.com/why-stubborn-optimism
"Stubborn optimism and ridiculous, unrelenting hope: a philosophy for the climate crisis" Elizabeth Rose