David Mytton

Welcome! I’m David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet (helping developers protect their apps), Co-founder of Console (the best tools for developers), and an active devtools investor. I am also researching sustainable computing at the University of Oxford and occasionally appear in the media to discuss data center & IT energy.

Recent

Paper Notes - ICT sector electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions 2020

22 July 2023

An updated look at the total electricity consumption and associated GHG emissions for the ICT sector in 2020. Paper notes on Malmodin et al. (2023).

Overestimating AI's water footprint

17 April 2023·Updated: 19 April 2023

Researchers need to be more careful about the inputs into their models. Overestimates undermine the goal of reducing the environmental impact of IT.

Paper Notes - The world wide web of carbon

26 March 2023

Will we ever be able to accurately assess the carbon footprint of IT? Could a relational footprint methodology be more useful? Paper notes on Pasek et al (2023).

Improving the accuracy of the GHG protocol in time and space

17 March 2023

The GHG Protocol needs to evolve to better represent the complexity of how energy markets work.

Influencing the carbon emissions of AI

27 February 2023

There is a correlation between the training time and energy consumption, but that doesn’t mean there is a correlation between training time and carbon emissions.