The Week in Green Software: AI Observability and Climate Education with Pascal Joly

Hosts Kate and Tzviya speak with consultant and technologist Pascal Joly about AI sustainability, observability, and tools for making smarter choices about AI usage. The conversation also explores the ITU’s Greening Digital Companies report and what its findings reveal about the growing energy and emissions of the digital sector before discussing the growing energy demands of the IT sector and recent sustainability reporting from major technology companies.

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• Kate Goldenring: LinkedIn | Website
• Tzviya Siegman: LinkedIn | Website
• Pascal Joly: LinkedIn | Website

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News:

• It Climate Ed [00:11]
• Sustainable AI - From Impact to Implementation by Pascal Joly on Maven [02:50]
• AI model efficiency selector | IT Climate Ed [06:38]
• AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they? | The Guardian [19:21]
• AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) [24:16]
• Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers
• Greening Digital Companies 2026 | ITU [29:26]
• EV Ep151 - The Week in Green Software: The AI Water Management Challenge with Masheika Allgood [40:38]

Events:

• Climate Week NYC 2026 | September 20-27 [37:04]
• SF Tech Week | October 5-11 [38:58]
• Green IO London 2026 | Sustainable Tech Conference | September 30 - October 1 [39:56]
• Designing a Standard for OpenTelemetry (October 5 at 5:00 pm CEST · Virtual) [40:16]

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