Thomas Fricke
Let us have look into the resource consumption of data centers and collect the current state of knowledge. There will be more questions than answers but predictions can be made because all resources have their limits.
The increase has already been exponential for years. With the AI hype, the demand for energy, cooling, water and other resources has increased dramatically.
The existing GPU based computing paradigm cuts hard into the standard design of data centers and demands other ways of cooling.
Thomas Fricke[node:field-speakers-institution]
Thomas main focus is cloud and Kubernetes security. He plans private clouds and delivers applications in highly critical infrastucture. His customers are delivering serivices for transmission grids, healthcare, traffic and the German administration.
He is cofounder of two companies, lives in Berlin, Germany.
In his former life at the university he studied statistical physics and even gave lessons on quantum theory and thermodynamics.
author = {Thomas Fricke},
title = {Energy Consumption of Datacenters},
year = {2024},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}