Cloud sustainability is a humorous matter. It’s like dental care; everybody agrees it’s necessary, however who needs to debate the particulars? It’s rather more enjoyable to speak concerning the new “shiny keys” of IT: AI and its infinite potentialities. Cloud sustainability is so 5 minutes in the past. Nevertheless, like dental care, ignoring the problems won’t make them go away.
AI progress was restricted this 12 months by the AI chip scarcity. With the chip problem resolved, AI will speed up the sustainability disaster attributable to its calls for on our energy grids that may outpace provide. Fortuitously, we’re not at that tipping level—but.
Trying within the mistaken locations
In my podcast discussions and movies on cloud and sustainability, which have gotten extra frequent as a result of rise of generative AI within the cloud, individuals are inclined to focus totally on knowledge middle matters akin to energy and server effectivity. We have to perceive that the facility manufacturing and consumption aspect of issues is just not the place essentially the most enhancements may be made.
