Module: environmental_impact

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 CO2 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?