Carbon Measurement and Reduction in Computing Systems - A Performance-Based Approach

Explore a 43-minute keynote presentation from the Storage Developer Conference 2023 that delves into using carbon footprint as a unified metric for evaluating computing equipment performance. Learn how to implement a "carbon points" methodology for hardware components and systems, enabling detailed carbon footprint quantification at system, rack, and data center levels. Discover practical approaches to measuring Scope 1, 2 (operational), and 3 (embedded) carbon categories in data center environments, while understanding workload-aligned metrics for "performance per carbon" calculations. Gain insights from real-world case studies demonstrating successful carbon reduction implementations across global customer deployments, and examine how open hardware and open source software design approaches contribute to industry-wide carbon reduction efforts. Through Erik Riedel's expertise from Flax Computing, master the essential connection between carbon measurement and optimization, proving that reducing carbon footprint can simultaneously decrease operational costs without compromising performance.