Friday 12 June 2020

Podcast: Global IT energy use ‘will be as big as USA by 2040’

Kevin Brown is a smooth-talking American. We chat on zoom in a relaxed manner but the Senior VP of Schneider Electric's Secure Power Division drops a bombshell at the start of our conversation.

"By 2040 edge computing alone might be 3200 TWh of energy consumption, that's like 275 million households bigger than the US, so it's a massive challenge in managing the carbon footprint that’s coming," he says.

Edge computing? Power consumption of TWh? What's he on about?

Find out in this podcast...