#64 Why we hate recycling with Elaine Brown and Ross Cockburn
Elaine and Ross hate recycling. Both know first hand about our computers’ and smartphones’ life. About the wasted opportunities to better use the precious resources into it. Elaine Brown is the CEO of the Edinburgh Remakery who refurbished 295 laptops last year. She’s also a keen expert on the right to repair issues. Ross Cockburn is the Trustee of Reusing IT who has been dealing with repaired devices from Africa to Ukraine over the last 25 years.
Gael Duez sat down with them to cover multiple topics such as: The business of ITAD; The financial and social rewardings of giving to charities; The SSD revolution for longevity; Linux, the (not so) secret weapon for reusing IT; The reality of Digital poverty; Right to repair laws without teeth; The multiple cost of Windows 10 EOL; And … a new acronym invented during the recording: IUTA!
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#63.b AI & Energy Efficiency: just follow the money? with Anne Currie
Anne Currie is the co-author of the acclaimed O’Reilly book “Building Green Software”, a pillar of the GSF, a veteran in the Cloud Industry and also a SF novelist with her series of panopticon books.
Preparing her forthcoming keynote at Green IO London, she went all the way down into the rabbit hole of AI and energy efficiency. She investigated from OpenAi to DeepSeek and open source models, what a software developer using these models can and cannot do to reduce energy consumption, and so on. In the second part of this episode, Anne Currie et Gaël Duez discussed the East compute / west data Chinese strategy, picking the cheapest AI model today and ... tomorrow, learning from python to forecast trend in open source, 4 questions to ask when choosing an AI powered product, the case for Wright’s law in open source, and much more!
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#63a AI & Energy Efficiency: why was DeepSeek a defining moment? with Anne Currie
Anne Currie is the co-author of the acclaimed O’Reilly book “Building Green Software”, a pillar of the GSF, a veteran in the Cloud Industry and also a SF novelist with her series of panopticon books.
Preparing her forthcoming keynote at Green IO London, she went all the way down into the rabbit hole of AI and energy efficiency. She investigated from OpenAi to DeepSeek and open source models, what a software developer using these models can and cannot do to reduce energy consumption, and so on.
In the first part of this episode, Anne Currie et Gaël Duez discussed:
- AI scaling law and its brute force philosophy
- The DeepSeek pivotal moment (hint: not necessarily the product itself)
- 3 actions made by DeepSeek to optimize
- Open source & efficiency
And much more!
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#62 Thirsty datacenters in the heart of Silicon Valley with Masheika Allgood
A month ago, Google released its 2024 sustainability report. Its overall water consumption increased by 28% in a year. Less publicized than the data center energy boom, water is also pivotal for the Tech industry and data is even scarcer.
To better understand this secret but serious love affair between big tech and water, what better location to investigate than its birth place? Yes. THE silicon valley. And no one there is better qualified to explore the topic than Masheika Allgood who lives in Santa Clara and recently created a Data Center Water Consumption Calculator based on public data. Over their conversation, Gael Duez and her covered:
- The astonishing amount of water used by data centers in California and why it could have been even worse
- “Back to the loop” & the limits on the efficiency gain from new cooling technics
- Air pollution & the trade-off of heat reuse in urban area
- The unignorable noise pollution
- How big tech lawyers have an edge on city council and community activism
And much much more!
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#61 Scaling Green Software with Anita Schüttler
What does it take to go beyond raising awareness in green software? To avoid checking just boxes? What is required to scale green software practices in a company?
To discuss these issues, Gaël Duez welcomes Anita Schüttler on this episode “from the trenches”. Anita is a seasoned software engineer and expert on digital sustainability. She works as Head of Sustainability at IT company neuland. Besides, she is a co-chair of the German Bundesverband Green Software, an auditor for the Blue Angel for software and a Champion of the Green Software Foundation.
Together, they covered many topics including:
- The formation of the Bundesverband Green Software,
- The CO2 challenge project,
- Scaling green software initiatives & measuring its success,
- The challenges in certification processes,
- The emotional roller coaster of nonprofit initiatives,
And much more!
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Green IO with Gaël Duez explores how to reduce the environmental impact of our digital world. Twice a month, on a Tuesdays guests from across the globe share insights, tools, and alternative approaches, enabling all responsible technologists, within the Tech sector and beyond, to build a greener digital world, one byte at a time.
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