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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. Google’s carbon data for each region is based on an accumulation of hourly location based consumption based carbon intensity measurements (sourced from ElectricityMaps) over a year.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

For instance, GSMA predicts that 5G will only comprise half of connections by 2030. Meanwhile, McKinsey predicts that high-quality 5G (networks that use 6GHz bands) will only cover a quarter of the world's population by 2030. Organisations had all learned the lessons of Google and FaceBook's adventures in Ajax.