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41: Earth Week Special - Carbon Explorer with Bilge
For our second special for Earth Week, we are talking to Bilge who works as a research scientist at Meta AI. Her open-source project Carbon Explorer evaluates solutions to make data centres operate on 24/7 renewable energy. Why this is easier said than done and how engineers can help within their day-to-day work to reduce their carbon footprint are among the many things Pascal and Bilge discuss in this episode.
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Links:
- Carbon Explorer: https://github.com/facebookresearch/CarbonExplorer
- Holistic Approach for Designing Carbon Aware Datacenters: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10036
- Open Catalyst: https://opencatalystproject.org/
- Open Catalyst SchrepTech Interview: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/how-ai-is-helping-address-the-climate-crisis/
Timestamps:
- Intro 0:05
- Intro Bilge 2:18
- Optimising for the Environment 4:01
- Carbon Explorer 5:02
- Mitigations for Renewable Intermittency 7:17
- Operational and Embodied Footprints 10:57
- Motivations for Carbon Explorer 13:06
- Battery Storage 14:36
- Renewable Curtailment 15:52
- Empowering Engineers 18:20
- Carbon Intensity APIs 19:22
- AI Carbon Intensity Forecasts 22:07
- Carbon Metrics 23:17
- Where to Learn More 25:38
- Outro 27:32
- Bloopers 29:45