How to stop data centres from gobbling up the world’s electricity

By Nicola Jones. 2018

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, ML Systems & Hardware

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Chasing Carbon: The Elusive Environmental Footprint of Computing (2020, background): “The data shows both optimistic (top) and expected (bottom) trends across mobile, networking, and data-center energy consumption [1], [2].”
A Holistic Approach for Designing Carbon Aware Datacenters (2022, background): “The energy demand of ICT is projected to account for 7% to 20% of the global demand by 2030 [1], [25].”
Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action (2022, background): “The overall demand for electricity from the digital technology sector is growing rapidly (Jones, 2018).”
The AI gambit: leveraging artificial intelligence to combat climate change—opportunities, challenges, and recommendations (2021, background): “…gains and the diversification of energy sources, estimates indicate that the ICT sector will be responsible for anywhere between 1.4% (assuming a stagnant growth) to 23% of global emissions by 2030 (Andrae and Edler 2015; Malmodin and Lundén 2018; C2E2 2018; Belkhir and Elmeligi 2018; Jones 2018).”
A first look into the carbon footprint of federated learning (2020, background): “For instance, Google declares a comprehensive trailing twelve-month PUE ratio of 1.11 (Google, 2020) compared to 1.2 and 1.125 for Amazon (AWS, 2020) and Microsoft (Microsoft, 2015) respectively.”
Human-centered artificial intelligence in education: Seeing the invisible through the visible (2021, background): “ICT is expected to require 20% of the planet ’ s electricity supply by 2030, which is extremely high compared with the current requirement of 1% (Jones, 2018).”
The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (2019, background): “These facilities have a very high energy requirement and carbon footprint 15 .”
Green Algorithms: Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Computation (2020, background): “By putting together equations (1) and (3), we obtain the long-form equation of the carbon footprint C:”
Co-designing electronics with microfluidics for more sustainable cooling (2020, background): “Their environmental impact is expected to increase dramatically [9], 25 accounting for 31% of the Ireland’s electricity demand by 2027 [15].”