This is the slide deck I used when presenting about how to run your infrastructure on cleaner clouds at the monthly London Devops meetup, held at Forward Technology in Camden.
This was the first time I'd given this talk outside of a greentech/cleanweb focussed audience, and it seemed to go down well.
Strategies for Landing an Oracle DBA Job as a Fresher
2013 01-15 - LDNdevops - 3 ways to run infra on cleaner clouds
1. 3 ways to run your
infrastructure on
cleaner clouds
LDNdevops Jan 2013
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2. Who am I
• Chris Adams
• Working as a Product Manager at AMEE
• Background in devops/ruby mainly
• @mrchrisadams everywhere online
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4. How it affects you
See the red circle? That’s Sandy flooding your servers
https://twitter.com/shloky/status/262948315119886336/photo/1
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5. How it affects Joel
https://twitter.com/spolsky/statuses/263288111692382208
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7. “Data centers are power-
hungry, and Facebook's
Oregon center in Crook
County is no exception,
using 28MW. While that's
fairly standard, it has
doubled the power use of
the county...
The entirety of Crook
County uses just under
30MW...
[Data Center Knowledge
via SlashDot; Image: Tom
Raftery]”
Ouch. Jan 31, 2012 via Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/5880804/facebooks-oregon-data-center-uses-as-much-power-as-the-entire-county
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12. How to measure it
• CO2 / Kwh
• CO2 / compute hour
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13. PUE?
• efficient != green
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14. PUE?
Data Centre Supply Carbon Intensity PUE IT Carbon Intensity
Typical 0.5kg CO2/kWh 1.5 0.75kg CO2/kWh
Good PUE mostly coal-fired power 0.8kg CO2/kWh 1.2 0.96kg CO2/kWh
Poor PUE but mostly renewables 0.2kg CO2/kWh 3.0 0.6kg CO2/kWh
http://www.romonet.com/blog/coal-fired-clouds
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http://www.slideshare.net/TomRaftery/open-source-cloud-platforms-cloudstack-collab - slide 18
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16. Electricity source
Emissions factor
Data centre Physical building and layout
Power Usage Occupancy level
Effectiveness (PUE) External temperature & humidity
Hardware
Standard power
consumption
http://www.slideshare.net/francinebennett/strata-london-slide-deck-14558889
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17. What if I did want to
switch?
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18. • switch region
• switch supplier
• offset
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19. Dashboard
http://,mastodonc.com/dashboard
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20. Switch region
• If AWS, switch from us-east (coal) to us-
west (hydro).
Same toys, same price, 66% CO2 saving
• If on Rackspace, a switch to London gives
certified green power
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21. Switch supplier
• How well are you already doing?
• Do you need API compatibiilty?
• Are you really scaling up and down that
much?
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22. Kg CO2e per KWh of national grid electricity
1.00
0.75
0.50
0.25
0
Sweden
UK
China
Switzerland
US (average)
Australia
Iceland
Source: Defra via Amee
http://www.slideshare.net/francinebennett/strata-london-slide-deck-14558889
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23. • EC2 compatible providers - Greenqloud
RARR MY INFRA RUNS ON
MAGMA cc michi_s - http://www.flickr.com/photos/32864130@N08/4542203306/
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24. greenqloud
http://greenqloud.com/trulygreen/
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25. Other providers
• France - Full of nukes (low CO2/kwH)
• Germany - full of solar
• Swiss - Full of extremely organised and
punctual people
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26. In the UK?
Infinity Martlesham
Super efficient (PUE 1.2) DC
Runs on biofuel
HAS ITS OWN FARM
2ms ping from London
The bulk of the electricity produced from the biomass plant is utilised for IT
http://infinitysdc.net/locations/martlesham/
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27. Offset
• (Or choose supplier that offset their power)
• Least attractive option, but better than
nothing.
• Good example would be Memset in UK, but
others exist
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28. Interested?
• http://cleanweb.org.uk
• @cleanwebuk / #cleanweb
• ##cleanweb on freenode
• Cleanweb UK on meetup.com
• That guy down there
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