The Network Cheat Sheet
Carbon-aware computing
Some workloads are energy intensive – but as Steve Cassidy finds out, there are greener and cheaper ways to operate
Doesn’t this raise data sovereignty issues?
Not necessarily. Sovereignty is certainly a concern for those who want to upload sensitive data such as customer lists and transaction summaries to cloud-hosting locations. But the tasks that benefit most from a carbon-aware approach aren’t usually simple database operations; they’re compute-intensive, number-crunching workloads, and these don’t need to contain personal information. Indeed, if the quest for cleaner energy helps you identify areas where customer data can be stripped out of a workload, and better contained in a more secure environment, that’s a good thing in itself.