Saving the world, one line at a time
summary
Data centres use 2% of global power, 3% of greenhouse gases and that load is set to treble in a decade, so concrete choices matter: reduce watts in code, measure bytes on the wire, and pick infrastructure that runs on renewables. Expect numbers and tradeoffs: 10 g CO2 per MB for network transfer, language energy rankings and when to compile to WebAssembly, plus guidance to choose renewable-backed cloud and where savings actually show up.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:20Need for green tech
- 6:19Climate change urgency
- 15:51Technologists reduce footprint
- 16:32Electricity in software
- 18:53Energy efficiency of languages
- 20:43Network energy consumption
- 24:16Measuring digital carbon impact
- 25:13Green cloud providers
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