Learning Objectives

In this module you will learn to answer the following questions:

• Why is green computing important?
• What is energy and power in the context of computing?
• What is an energy budget and what is it for?
• How can we quantify our environmental impact?
• What are typical values of energy usage?
• How much CO$_2$ is produced and how does this depend on the country and time of day?
• Where in my workflow is energy primarily consumed?
• What are significant sources of energy usage that I might not expect?