David Mytton

Welcome! I’m David Mytton, CEO 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 - 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.

Why don't data centers participate in demand response?

13 February 2023

Data centers consuming too much energy at peak times - can’t we just turn them off?

DPhil in Engineering Science

16 January 2023

In October 2022 I started a DPhil (PhD) in Engineering Science researching sustainable computing at the University of Oxford.