Chris Adams is joined by cloud sustainability advocate and founder of Cloud Sustainably, Aerin Booth in this episode of TWiGS brought to you by the Green Software Foundation. On this episode Aerin provides his insight into the cloud to discuss cloud zombies, the effect that generative AI is having on the environment and exciting developments from Xbox (including a list of some of Aerin’s favourite nostalgic games!). We also touch on GreenOps and the future for green software developers.

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News:* Generative AI and cloud zombies: Raising the alarm about global climate impact: / Silicon Angle [2:48] * Report on ChatGPT Model’s Emissions Offers Rare Glimpse of AI’s Climate Impacts: / Truthout.org [2:48] * Xbox’s New Energy Measurement Tools are World Changing: / Xbox [6:23] * Wagtail and the summer of code / GitHub [14:32]

Events:* LF Energy Summit ( June 1 at 2:05 pm - 2:35 pm CET • Paris & Virtual) [19:35] * GreenTech Southwest Meetup (April 20, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm • Bristol & Virtual) [20:00]

Resources:* PS5 Power Consumption / ecoenergygeek [10:58] * The UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill / Linklaters Sustainable Futures [20:16] * The Carbon Reduction Opportunity of Moving to Amazon Web Services / 451 Research [21:02]

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