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Waste not, want not: making the cloud greener with sustainability data
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Bohr Conference Room
Bohr Conference Room
Description
CO2-eq emissions from the ICT sector are larger than the aviation industry. According to industry surveys of enterprises over the last 5 years, ~30% of cloud spend is wasted due to over-provisioning. Assuming spend is roughly proportional to cloud energy usage, this represents the equivalent annual average consumption of ~50 million UK households, or the average annual emissions of ~25,000 cars on UK roads. This also represents significant opportunity cost, blocking more useful compute that generates research and business value.
Frameworks have been built to track cloud usage via tagging and tracking cloud spend to hold certain users and teams accountable. This drives downsizing of over-provisioned virtual machines, enacting auto-shutdown procedures outside of working hours, deleting unused stored data, and relying on batch-processing and ‘spot’ instance usage where possible. However, uptake of these frameworks rely on cross-functional employee engagement, which can be a challenging problem to overcome.
In this talk, I will discuss the methodology behind Greenpixie’s granular sustainability data, which estimates the impact of 10M+ cloud and AI products. This empowers enterprise leaders to track their cloud impact and motivate teams to scale their cloud usage responsibly, working from the adage: “It is not their budget, but it is their planet”.