Modelling a path to Fossil Free Internet with Tom Brown

Chris Adams is joined by special guest Dr. Tom Brown from TU Berlin to explore how modelling can help build a fossil free internet and power grid. They discuss Google's 24/7 carbon free energy goals, the growing impact of data centres on electricity systems, and how investments in clean energy technologies could accelerate global decarbonisation. Along the way, Tom shares why open source energy modelling is helping shape a more transparent and sustainable energy future.

Learn more about our people:

• Chris Adams: LinkedIn | GitHub | Website
• Tom Brown: LinkedIn | Bluesky | Website

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• The Green Software Foundation Website 
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Resources:

• CO2.js | Green Web Foundation [01:08]
• Release Guide: CO2.js v0.18 - Green Web Foundation [01:25]
• Carbon Aware SDK | GSF [01:33]
• CodeCarbon [01:52]
• EcoLogits [01:54]
• PyPSA [03:00]
• https://www.tu.berlin/en/ensys 
• Clean Coffee #1 [05:15]
• European Commission recommends open source tools for hydrogen-related cost-benefit analysis [10:49]
• The Role of Energy Storage in Germany 
• Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive? [20:17]
• The cost of data centre growth in Ireland | Friends of the Earth [22:08]
• 24/7 carbon-free electricity matching accelerates adoption of advanced clean energy technologies | Igor Riepin [23:47]
• EV Ep50 TWiGS: Modeling Carbon Aware Software w/ Igor Riepin [24:32]
• EV Ep31 TWiGS: Code Green and Clean Power w/ Nina Jabłońska 
• EV Ep97 How to Tell When Energy is Green w/ Killian Daley 
• Spatio-temporal load shifting for truly clean computing [27:39]
• On the means, costs, and system-level impacts of 24/7 carbon-free energy procurement [35:46]
• Worked example showing that Anthropic is likely paying around 5000 USD per megawatt hour for compute capacity in the Colossus 1 datacentre [39:39] 
• Neuralwatt Cloud [42:06] 
• Solar and batteries can power the world [44:51]
• Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember [51:32]
• Solar + Battery Atlas 
• Harnessing the Sun | Solar + Battery Atlas 
• model.energy [52:58]
• Scenario Builder (TZ-SB) [53:50]
• Tom Brown LinkedIn Post re: OpenStreetMap [54:51]
• MapYourGrid [56:09]

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