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Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Dynatrace

If you’re running your own data center, you can start powering it with green energy purchased through your utility company. The complication with this approach is that your energy bill will likely increase. Next, we consider possible energy savings in the data center. So you’ll have to look elsewhere for energy savings!”

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., energy consumption). Energy Consumption. Running an example suite of 4 applications on Android, 5G dominated the energy cost, even far exceeding the energy demands of the screen.

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Don’t follow the sun: Scheduling compute workloads to chase green energy can be counter-productive

Adrian Cockcroft

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive.

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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

Specifically, we agree that one of the grand challenges of sustainable computing is matching electrical load with the availability of low-carbon electricity. Chien, we assert that it is impractical and insufficient to rely on quickly deploying renewable energy to decarbonize manufacturing. Unlike Prof. Chien’s post. Therefore, the $1.4B

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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

Kubernetes-based efficient power level exporter (Kepler) is a Prometheus exporter that uses ML models to estimate the energy consumption of Kubernetes pods. In our case, we wanted to highlight the value of using Kepler to provide the energy consumption of our Kubernetes workload. Labels we don’t need.

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Preliminary Thoughts on the White House Executive Order on AI

O'Reilly

Availability of this information would assist in many of the other goals outlined in the EO, including addressing algorithmic discrimination and increasing competition in the AI market, as well as other important issues that the EO does not address, such as copyright. Energy usage and other environmental impacts. Operational Metrics.

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

Is my database cluster still highly available? All of our high availability options are offered in DigitalOcean, including 2 Replicas + 1 Arbiter, 3 Replicas and custom replica set setups. DigitalOcean does not have the concept of availability zones (AZ), so we distribute the nodes across different regions. High performance.

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