The Cost of Compute: A $7 trillion race to scale data centers скачать в хорошем качестве

The Cost of Compute: A $7 trillion race to scale data centers

Join The Explorers Club to learn about the design principles and strategies from nature that point to a potential sustainable future in the race for compute. Inside a narrow window of time, nearly a trillion dollars will be spent on building out data centers. We have all heard the horror stories of depleted water supply, a failing energy grid, and costs passed along to ratepayers …and even a few communities who are standing up to the tech giants. But if we all want the functionality of a cloud, then the question is not whether we have data centers or even where we put them, but how they function. Nature uses one structure to achieve multiple functions. So what if this investment moment in digital infrastructure was utilized to drive co-benefits for planetary and social systems? The key is to define the built system more broadly, incorporating regional waste streams as inputs while producing clean energy, clean water, and healthy soil on site. The good news is that off-the-shelf technology exists to make this a reality and a handful of infrastructure companies are putting it into action. This in-person screening at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A. RESERVATIONS This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters. In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public. Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm Speakers Beth Rattner Beth Rattner is an endlessly curious type, determined to see her little slice of the world redesigned in a way that benefits all life. An attorney-meets-permaculturist with a lot of hours logged in sustainability circles, Beth is a perennial advocate for nature-inspired design (biomimicry). She is currently the Senior Director of Impact at Endeavour, a digital infrastructure leader, after working for nearly twenty years as an executive director for both the Cradle to Cradle and Biomimicry Institutes. While at Biomimicry, Beth led a multi-year, global pilot to transform fashion waste into feedstock for new biomaterials. She continues this work of “waste equals food” in the digital infrastructure space today. Prior to this she worked at Blu Skye, one of the first sustainability management consulting firms advising Fortune 100 companies, and at HP in the Emerging Markets Group bringing appropriate scale technology to those at the bottom of the economic pyramid.