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SUMMARY:Waste not\, want not: making the cloud greener with sustainability
  data
DTSTART:20261023T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Joshua Horswill (Greenpixie\, ex-LHCb)\n\nCO2-eq emi
 ssions from the ICT sector are larger than the aviation industry. Accordin
 g to industry surveys of enterprises over the last 5 years\, ~30% of cloud
  spend is wasted due to over-provisioning. Assuming spend is roughly propo
 rtional to cloud energy usage\, this represents the equivalent annual aver
 age consumption of ~50 million UK households\, or the average annual emiss
 ions of ~25\,000 cars on UK roads. This also represents significant opport
 unity cost\, blocking more useful compute that generates research and busi
 ness value. Frameworks have been built to track cloud usage via tagging an
 d tracking cloud spend to hold certain users and teams accountable. This d
 rives downsizing of over-provisioned virtual machines\, enacting auto-shut
 down procedures outside of working hours\, deleting unused stored data\, a
 nd relying on batch-processing and ‘spot’ instance usage where possibl
 e. 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 sustainabi
 lity data\, which estimates the impact of 10M+ cloud and AI products. This
  empowers enterprise leaders to track their cloud impact and motivate team
 s to scale their cloud usage responsibly\, working from the adage: “It i
 s not their budget\, but it is their planet”.\n\nhttps://indico.global/e
 vent/19106/
LOCATION:Bohr Conference Room
URL:https://indico.global/event/19106/
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