David Mytton

David Mytton 2023

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.

Latest posts


  • Analyzing the difference between energy and power estimates from software models vs a hardware analyzer in video communications.


  • Energy & carbon aren’t the only environmental impacts of computing, but are the public health impacts overstated?


  • Even for AI training workloads, data center demand response remains an academic exercise – intriguing but impractical.


  • Manufacturer provided Thermal Design Power (TDP) figures are often used to estimate energy consumption of GPU AI workloads, but how useful are they?


  • Global data center energy consumption was 240-340 TWh in 2022, but AI is now a major driver of future projections. An update on the 2024 US Data Center Energy report.