Dear colleagues, for this month's edition of "Ecological Sustainability in Internet Infrastructure" news, I'd like to invite you to an online event, organised by yours-truly & RIPE NCC, this week: 2 October 2024 (10:00-11:30 UTC) "Green Technology and Sustainability in Internet Technologies" Register at: https://www.ripe.net/meetings/open-house/green-tech-and-sustainability-in-in... We will be discussing the role of Internet technologies in addressing environmental concerns and fostering sustainable practices, with amazing speakers: * Mallory Knodel, Executive Director of the Social Web Foundation, presenting "Beyond Carbon". [1] Mallory will explore strategies for reducing technology’s environmental impact beyond traditional carbon reduction measures. * Max Schulze, Director at Leitmotiv, presenting "Let’s Be Responsible: On the Practice of Software Engineering and Sustainability". Max will highlight the importance of responsible software development and its role in creating a more sustainable future. [2] * Prof. Wim Vanderbauwhede, Professor in Computing Science, presenting "The Insatiable Hunger of AI". Wim’s talk will examine the enormous energy demands of AI, the resulting CO₂ emissions, and the environmental impact of building the hardware to support AI’s projected growth. [3] Below you can find my selection of work by each speaker. And, if you want to get more active on this topic, join the Green Tech hackathon : 10-11. December, online, in Amsterdam, & in Local Hubs around the world: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/announcing-the-green-tech-hackathon/ Rainy regards, Vesna Links: [1] Here you can read, and contribute to, the IETF draft "Beyond Carbon" : https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-knodel-beyond-carbon/ [2] Max is a founder of "Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V." https://sdialliance.org RIPE Labs article (2023) : "Bringing Together the European Green Coding and Software Communities" https://labs.ripe.net/author/max-schulze/its-growing-bringing-together-the-e... [3] Three links about Wim's work: event, podcast, article: Event: 3rd December 2024: "1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing" ; hybrid: online & Glasgow https://www.sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco2024/ Podcast: (October 2024) Frugal Computing for a Sustainable Internet https://labs.ripe.net/author/anastasiya-pak/wim-vanderbauwhede-frugal-comput... Article: (May 2024) The Climate Cost of the AI Revolution https://labs.ripe.net/author/wim-vanderbauwhede/the-climate-cost-of-the-ai-r...