Welcome back to a new season of Code for Thought. The subject of this episode is energy consumption in computing. My guests are Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow, UK) and John Wernvik (Eco Datacentre, Sweden). This is a big subject area and there will be more on this later  this season - so watch out.


Links:

• https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wim/ Wim's page at Uni Glasgow
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aam9744 There is room at the top - paper
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06642 Wim's paper on Frugal computing
  • https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/frugal-computing-developer/ developer perspective on frugal computing
  • https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/frugal-computing-consumer/ consumer perspective
• https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/climate-cost-of-ai-revolution/ an article on the climate costs of AI
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law Moore's "Law" summary
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law Koomey's "Law" summary
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle Landauer's principle
• https://ecodatacenter.tech Eco Datacentre in Sweden - homepage
• https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ai-data-centers-could-use-more-electricity-than-the-netherlands-by-2027/ John mentioned an article estimating the future energy used with increase of AI/ML
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435123003653?dgcid=author another article on energy consumption and AI

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