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The Week in Green Software: Green Kernels

Environment Variables

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Introduction

Chris Adams: Data centers consume 3% of all global electricity. Even in 2023, more than half of the electricity we use globally will still be generated by burning fossil fuels. In a world of cloud computing, this turns out to be surprisingly hard. We're turning up the geek fact all the way to 11 to figure out why this is hard and what the state of the art looks like.

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