My talk at the Salinas, CA Rotary Club on Feb 9, 2023, focused on misconceptions about information technology energy and environmental impacts
My talk on February 9, 2023 for the Salinas Rotary club is an expansion of points made in a commentary article by me and Professor Eric Masanet, UCSB, in Joule in 2021:
Koomey, J., & Masanet, E. (2021). Does not compute: Avoiding pitfalls assessing the Internet’s energy and carbon impacts. Joule, 5(7), 1625-1628. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2542435121002117.
In the talk, I presented nine different high-profile misconceptions about electricity use and emissions associated with computing, explored four pitfalls that lead to such misconceptions, and suggested four ways we can do better in the future.
Here is a graph illustrating that substantial increases in information technology services, in this case data flows, does not necessarily imply increases in energy use.
Here is the conclusions slide:
You can download a PDF of the slides (which include three pages of references) HERE.
