Building a Carbon and Price-Aware Kubernetes Scheduler, with Dave Masselink

Data centers consume over 4% of global electricity and this number is projected to triple in the next few years due to AI workloads.

Dave Masselink, founder of Compute Gardener, discusses how he built a Kubernetes scheduler that makes scheduling decisions based on real-time carbon intensity data from power grids.

You will learn:

• How carbon-aware scheduling works - Using real-time grid data to shift workloads to periods when electricity generation has lower carbon intensity, without changing energy consumption

• Technical implementation details - Building custom Kubernetes schedulers using the scheduler plugin framework, including pre-filter and filter stages for carbon and time-of-use pricing optimization

• Energy measurement strategies - Approaches for tracking power consumption across CPUs, memory, and GPUs

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