Deep Green

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The babel fish are born... Thank you to Mark Boost and the Civo team for inviting Mark Bjornsgaard to Navigate London, to describe the critical mission to distributed computing for social good. Here's a fleeting summary. We've talked about the notion of Edge for years but it didn’t have the real life customer and business outcomes to be make it a reality. We now have governments, customers and stakeholders all driving the distribution of computing. • Governments knows that recaptured heat can be more cost effective than gas. • Customers value the innate social license to operate of heat recapture • Shareholders realise that positive publicity gets them (literal) power faster. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆? • A proliferation of new entrants into the market, like Deep Green. The more, the merrier. • That we have to address and overcome the complexities of heat reuse, work we are spearheading with partners. • Working with and within the changing financial models and new economics of the transition. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱? • Affording the innovation investment in new types of coding. • The opportunity to harness the benefits of greener code. Come and listen to Stuart Harris from Red Badger describe both in a forthcoming Beyond Good talk - you can register at our website for invites. • Radical transparency in the architectures for "compostable" distributed compute. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀? • For 15 years, we have had a chicken and egg situation where there wasn't any need for distributed computing because there weren't a host of viable use cases and applications to run on them • From babel fish translators to peer-to-peer gaming, the use cases are arriving thick and fast. • “Build it and they’ll will come”(the old myth of Edge) becomes “build it as they come”(as proven by the customer demand we are receiving). Less Field of Dreams and more Wallace and Gromit.

For seven consecutive years, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world. When we asked his Excellence why that might be, he replied that it's about contentedness, and a profound connection with nature. Apparently every Finn is within 2km of a forest. Thank you Nokia for the opportunity to spend the evening with Jukka Siukosaari, who was a wonderful host, full of steadfast wisdom and wily humour, and guests including Mark Boost, our client at Civo, Peter Beecroft, Robert Morgan, Edward O'Connor, Satyen Bhatt from Groq and Richard Petrie. It's always a pleasure to meet our partners Elizabeth Hunt, Paul Alexander, Paul Adams and consortium member of our dLLM proof-of-concepts, David Gong. Kindness and contentedness seems to be prevailing values for the whole team. A genuine privilege, gratitude your Excellence.

❗New video alert.❗ It's always been our intention to debate the drivers across the ecology within we find ourselves, Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Climate Tech, Energy, Finance and Government, Equitable Society and, most notably, the Climate Emergency. It's against this backdrop that we hosted Leo Rayman, CEO of EdenLab at Beyond Good. Quite often the 9 "Rs" of sustainability – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse, Repair, Rethink, Remove, Repurpose and Recover - are convoluted with 'degrowth', inferring that moving away from conventional economic models comes at a cost; profitability. Leo's fast-paced presentation dismantles this misconception, and highlights actionable ways to transition economics for the future. Take for example, the humble fast food burger. Leo completely devours The Big Mac Index by applying the actual cost, if the megabrand that sells them made a semi-serious attempt to account for carbon. A New York Big Mac leaps from $5.23 to a make-it-large $24.67! Grab a non-milkshake, put your feet up and enjoy this 22 minute masterclass. Thanks Leo Rayman, working with you is always a total pleasure. https://lnkd.in/ek85SHEU -- Our next Beyond Good deep dives into the world of District Heat Networks. Don't miss it.

As AI adoption accelerated in all sectors, how can AI help address the climate crisis, but also be developed and deployed in the greenest possible way? Join us next week as Mark Bjornsgaard joins the expert panel at techUK Tech and Net Zero Conference, where Mark, Tom Moran, Susanne Baker Anna Lewis and Devorah West will explore both sides of this challenge, whilst also looking at the UK-specific challenges for deploying data centres and AI related infrastructure. The event is on Wednesday the 16th of October in Central London. Tickets are still available here. https://lnkd.in/eTrXcUM4

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Join us in Soho next week for a conversation with Leo Rayman about the path to profitability in a post-carbon world. People often associate the 9 R’s of sustainability – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse, Repair, Rethink, Remove, Repurpose and Recover – with a suppression of growth and profitability. Leo Rayman – founder and CEO of EdenLab – joins us for a Beyond Good event, to shatter that assumption, illuminating the path to the future with insights, learning and tools to ensure we thrive as we decarbonise our operations. We'd love to see you on Wednesday 25th September from 5pm - register for free on the link below.

🎬 Our latest Beyond Good film is ready to watch! Clayton Wagar from NOKIA describes our next moonshot, building Super Intelligence with distributed compute... In this fast-moving presentation, one of the industry's leading voices in data science shows how - with new networking and orchestration - Nokia and Deep Green will build the "Trillion Dollar Cluster" across 1000s of smaller data centres Take a moment, watch and let us know what you think. 👉 The link to the full video is here in the first comment.

Thank you Rory Daniels for the opportunity to discuss energy recapture and reuse as a powerful unlock for communities, and the foundation of our distributed data centre strategy. You can watch the full interview with of CEO Mark Bjornsgaard on the links in comments. Recorded by techUK as part of the 'Meet the Innovators' series.