Green IO

Green IO with Gaël Duez explores how to reduce the environmental impact of our digital world. Twice a month, on a Tuesdays guests from across the globe share insights, tools, and alternative approaches, enabling all responsible technologists, within the Tech sector and beyond, to build a greener digital world, one byte at a time.

Green IO is a technology podcast hosted by Gaël DUEZ, with 86 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Gaël DUEZ hosts Green IO, a technology show with 86 episodes published.

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  Episode #67

  #62 Thirsty datacenters in the heart of Silicon Valley with Masheika Allgood

  Aug 18, 202549 minS4

  A month ago, Google released its 2024 sustainability report. Its overall water consumption increased by 28% in a year.  Less publicized than the data center energy boom, water is also pivotal for the Tech industry and data is even scarcer.  <br>To better understand this secret but serious love affair between big tech and water, what better location to investigate than its birth place? Yes. THE silicon valley. And no one there is better qualified to explore the topic than Masheika Allgood who lives in Santa Clara and recently created a Data Center Water Consumption Calculator based on public data. Over their co...

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  Episode #66

  #61 Scaling Green Software with Anita Schüttler

  Jul 7, 202549 minS3

  What does it take to go beyond raising awareness in green software? To avoid checking just boxes? What is required to scale green software practices in a company? <br>To discuss these issues, Gaël Duez welcomes Anita Schüttler on this episode “from the trenches”. Anita is a seasoned software engineer and expert on digital sustainability. She works as Head of Sustainability at IT company neuland. Besides, she is a co-chair of the German Bundesverband Green Software, an auditor for the Blue Angel for software and a Champion of the Green Software Foundation. <br>Together, they covered many topics includin...

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  Episode #65

  #60 Why Tech companies should not deprioritize future readiness with Rainer Karcher

  Jun 23, 202550 minS3

  “Climate activist in a suit”. <br>This is how Rainer Karcher describes himself. <br>It is an endless debate between people advocating for the system to change from the outside and those willing to change it from the inside. In this episode Gaël Duez welcomes a strong advocate of moving the corporate world into the right direction from within? Having spent 2 decades in companies such as Siemens or Allianz, Rainer Karsher knows the corporate world well, which he now advises on sustainability. <br><br>In this Green IO episode, they analyse the current backlash against ESG in our corporate world an...

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  Episode #64

  #59 Debriefing Qcon Sustainability track with Erica Pisani

  Jun 9, 202540 minS3

  How is sustainability covered in main tech conferences? <br>Sure cybersecurity, DevOps, or anything related to SRE, is covered at length. Not to mention AI… But what room is left for the environmental impact of our job ? And what are the main trends which are filtered out from specialized conferences in Green IT such as Green IO, GreenTech Forum or eco-compute to generic Tech conferences? <br>To talk about it Gaël Duez sat down in this latest Green IO episode with Erica Pisani who was the MC of the Performance and Sustainability track at QCon London this year. Together they...

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  Episode #63

  #58b Avoided emissions thanks to Tech: the Vinted use case with Laetitia Bornes - Part 2

  May 26, 202539 minS3

  Why is the model of a Nobel prize winner not necessarily good science? What is “good” modelling? Is access to information enough to change a system behavior? <br>This episode is the second part of a long interview with Laetitia Bornes, a Doctor in Human-Computer Interaction, Systems Engineering and Systemic Design who is one of the co-authors of a research paper investigating the claims made by the second hand digital platform Vinted about the avoided carbon emissions thanks to its operations. As presented in the first part, their findings were surprising, enlightening for the IT sector and nuanced! In this second...

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