Creating Better Computer Systems by Focusing on Sustainability
summary
Claim that IT could consume up to 21% of global energy by 2030, backed by André Andersson style forecasts, drives concrete actions: use electricityMap to schedule heavy batch jobs when the grid is green, pick cloud regions with built‑in carbon heuristics, add sustainability toggles to disable expensive features per client, monitor real device utilization, and run surveys (example scores: social 3.43, environmental 2.3, economic 2.9) to prioritize work. Examples include body scanner UX forcing binary sex, Fairphone community OS life extension, and Google/AWS region pickers.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Sustainable software development
- 1:15Sustainability in software
- 8:18Energy consumption and carbon
- 16:30Sustainability examples
- 27:48Sustainability in requirements
- 33:30Inclusive and accessible systems
- 39:10Older hardware and e-waste
- 45:45Energy-aware operations
- 51:05Optimizing code and tech debt
- 53:51Survey results and discussions
- 1:19:12Summary
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