Press
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Quotes / interviews #
- 24 Mar 2023 - We must move on from RECs Data Center Dynamics
- 14 Mar 2023 - Energy from data centre harnessed to heat swimming pools The Times
- 28 Feb 2023 - Artificial intelligence training is powered mostly by fossil fuels use New Scientist
- 17 Jan 2023 - Google has finally revealed how much water its data centres use New Scientist
- 28 Nov 2022 - AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030 The Register
- 14 Oct 2022 - How much water do data centres use? Most tech companies won’t
say
New Scientist - 22 Sep 2022 – The trouble with data center energy
figures
Data Center Dynamics - 23 Aug 2022 – Fears over data centres soaking up water during UK
drought
The Times - 2 Jul 2022 – The West’s drought could bring about a data center
reckoning
Protocol - 1 Mar 2022 – Amazon Web Services to Share Emissions Data as Tech Giants Race
to Green the
Cloud
WSJ - 15 Jan 2022 – De onstilbare energiehonger van de virtuele
wereld
De Standaard - 21 Oct 2021 – How AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is keeping its $59 billion flywheel spinning Fast Company
- 12 Oct 2021 – Google has the cleanest cloud. Now it’s helping other companies
go
green
Fast Company - 20 Sep 2021 – Climate change and datacentres: Weighing up water
use
Computer Weekly - 12 July 2021 – U.S. data centers rely on water from stressed
basins
EOS - 18 May 2021 – Big Tech races to clean up act as cloud energy use
grows
Financial Times - 16 Dec 2020 – Les géants de la tech sont-ils aussi «écolos» qu’ils le
prétendent?
Libération - 13 Jul 2020 – Cloud computing could be producing hidden greenhouse gas
emissions
Imperial College London News
TV #
- 26 Oct 2021 – Interview on carbon footprint of photos and the
cloud (blog)
Sky News, Breakfast with Kay Burley - 16 Nov 2020 – Is your online habit killing the
planet? (blog)
Channel 4, Dispatches
Watch on: Channel 4
Podcasts #
I host the Console DevTools Podcast interviewing interesting people in and around devtools. I’ve also appeared on the following podcasts:
- 1 Oct 2022 - Let’s Talk Data Centers!
Cat Power Bytes Podcast
Listen: Apple, Spotify, Cat - 15 Sep 2022 – Green software
DCD Podcast
Listen on: Apple, Spotify, Anchor - 25 Aug 2022 – Bringing reliable and transparent information to Green IT
Green I/O
Listen on: Apple, Spotify, bCast - 17 Mar 2022 – Sustainability
Traceroute Podcast
Listen on: Apple, Spotify, Traceroute - 13 Oct 2021 – Setting-up product and tech teams
Seedcamp Podcast: This Much I know, by Carlos Espinal
Listen on: Soundcloud - 8 Feb 2018 – Seedcamp Sessions: David Mytton on SaaS funding
Seedcamp Podcast: This Much I Know, by Carlos Espinal
Listen on: Soundcloud, Overcast, Archive.org - 24 Mar 2017 – Server Density with David Mytton
Google Cloud Platform Podcast
Listen on: Google, YouTube, Archive.org
Speaking #
Speaking appearances which have publicly available videos:
- 15 Sep 2022 – Sources of data center energy
WEGreen Workshop @ GECON2022: Engineering Green and Sustainable Software in the Computing Continuum (online) - 21 Jan 2022 – Why found an open source business?
OpenUK panel discussion (online)
Watch on: YouTube - 3 Aug 2021 – Energy and water consumption in IT – How to reach
sustainability in computing
ClimateGroup Max Perutz Labs (Online)
Watch on: YouTube - 3 Jun 2021 – Panel: Zero water data centers by 2030: mission impossible?
Scaleway Round Table (Online)
Watch on: YouTube - 26 May 2021 – Panel: What is the data center industry doing about water
conservation
DCD Building at Scale (Online)
Watch on: DCD - 25 Feb 2021 – How do data center operators responsibly navigate through RECs
& PPAs?
DCD Towards Net Zero (Online)
Watch on: DCD - 19 Apr 2019 – Philosophy of HumanOps
Devoxx France (Paris)
Watch on: YouTube, Archive.org - 14 Aug 2018 – What is HumanOps?
HumanOps (San Francisco)
Watch on: StackPath, Archive.org - 9 Mar 2017 – Bigtable in action
Google Next (San Francisco)
Watch on: YouTube, Archive.org - 22 Mar 2016 – Don’t forget the humans
London DevOps Meetup
Watch on: YouTube, Archive.org - 26 Oct 2015 – War games – flight training for ops teams
DevOpsDays (Berlin)
Watch on : YouTube - 1 Oct 2015 – Startups & open source
Evento Linux (Lisbon)
Watch on: YouTube - 30 Sep 2015 – HumanOps – scaling teams and handling incidents
HighOps (London)
Watch on: YouTube - 25 Jun 2015 – How to handle incidents, downtime and outages
DevOpsDays (Amsterdam)
Watch on: Vimeo - 8 Jun 2015 – Scaling Humans – Ops teams and incident management
dotScale (Paris)
Watch on: YouTube - 17 Apr 2015 – Why Puppet? Why Now?
Puppet Camp (Paris)
Watch on: YouTube - 13 Apr 2015 – Why Puppet? Why Now?
Puppet Camp (London)
Watch on: YouTube - 31 Oct 2014 – DevOps incident handling
London DevOps Meetup
Watch on: YouTube - 2 Jul 2014 – Running MongoDB on Google Compute Engine
Scale Responsibly (London)
Watch on: YouTube - 14 May 2014 – Puppet Is Most of Your Documentation
Puppet Camp (Tokyo)
Watch on: YouTube - 16 Dec 2013 – NoSQL Infrastructure
NoSQL Matters (Barcelona)
Watch on: YouTube - 28 Nov 2013 – Puppet at the centre of everything
Puppet Camp (Munich)
Watch on: YouTube - 20 Nov 2013 – Puppet at the centre of everything
Puppet Camp (London)
Watch on: YouTube - 16 Mar 2013 – StartOps Growing an ops team from 1 founder
DevOpsDays (London)
Watch on: Vimeo - 23 May 2013 – Remote startup – building a company from everywhere in the
world
Digital Shoreditch (London)
Watch on: YouTube
Video #
- Feb 9 2018 – The Hidden Costs of Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
Watch on: YouTube, Archive.org - Sep 2017 – Server Density behind the scenes
Server Density / American Express
Watch on: YouTube, American Express, Archive.org - 17 Nov 2015 – The Server Density Story
Server Density
Watch on: YouTube, Archive.org - 28 May 2013 – Cloud Trailblazers – David Mytton, CEO of Server Density
GigaOm
Watch on: YouTube, Archive.org