Development PracticesOpening Keynote20min
Who's going to save the world from AI's energy use? You are.
Anne Currie highlights AI’s unprecedented energy demands as a major environmental challenge. Drawing on examples from Google and DeepSeek, she explains how efficiency and flexibility can reduce impact and urges developers to take practical steps that support both sustainable AI growth and the global transition to renewable energy.
Anne CurrieStrategically Green
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Wednesday, May 6, 10:10-10:30
Gallery Hall
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"Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now" - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Forget Skynet. Right now, AI's greatest threat to humanity is its demand for electricity. Anne Currie, co-author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software, will talk about why the energy demand from AI has exceeded anything we've seen before in tech; how that demand can and is being met using efficiency and flexibility by forward thinkers like Google and DeepSeek; and what you can do from your own desk that might have global impact on both the AI and the renewable power revolutions.
Forget Skynet. Right now, AI's greatest threat to humanity is its demand for electricity. Anne Currie, co-author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software, will talk about why the energy demand from AI has exceeded anything we've seen before in tech; how that demand can and is being met using efficiency and flexibility by forward thinkers like Google and DeepSeek; and what you can do from your own desk that might have global impact on both the AI and the renewable power revolutions.
Anne Currie
Anne Currie is a tech veteran of over 30 years working on everything from high performance C servers in the 90's to international online lingerie at one of the early ecommerce pioneers in the naughties, to modern ops, efficiency, flexibility and sustainability in the 10's and 20's.
She is the author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software, The Cloud Native Attitude and the scifi Panopticon series. She is the host of a brand new software engineering podcast, Eventual Consistency, where she chats to leading folk in their fields about the concepts that underlie the modern tech industry
She is the author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software, The Cloud Native Attitude and the scifi Panopticon series. She is the host of a brand new software engineering podcast, Eventual Consistency, where she chats to leading folk in their fields about the concepts that underlie the modern tech industry
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