Sustainability and Software - Designing a Framework for Software Sustainability

Asim Hussain joins Tony to discuss a wide range of topics around sustainability.  They talk about Asim's experience in the sustainability field and what software efforts exist around sustainability.  They also discuss how energy efficiency is measured for data centers, the metrics the Green Software Foundation have proposed and other broad topics around maximizing the value of sustainability efforts.

Guest:

Asim Hussain - Green Software Foundation

Asim is a developer, author and speaker with over 20 years experience working for organizations such as the European Space Agency, Google, Microsoft and now Intel where he is the Director of Green Software. He's also the Executive Director and Chairperson of the Green Software Foundation, a global industry consortium with a mission to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for building green software.

 Learn more: 

Green Software Foundation

https://greensoftware.foundation

 

Environment variables (GSF Podcast)

https://podcast.greensoftware.foundation 

 

SCI (software carbon intensity) specification

https://greensoftware.foundation/articles/software-carbon-intensity-sci-specification-project

 

Climate Action .tech

https://climateaction.tech

 

Data Center Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

https://www.nrel.gov/computational-science/measuring-efficiency-pue.html

 

Google PUE reporting

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/

 

The Green Web foundation

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org

 

CO2.js

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/co2-js/