Welcome to techUK’s Photonics sprint campaign, a five-month initiative (September 2025 – January 2026) showcasing and exploring the technologies, innovations, and opportunities shaping the future of Photonics in the UK.
Understanding AI’s footprint is crucial, yet thorough data on the energy and environmental impact of AI inference — the use of a trained AI model to make predictions or generate text or images — has been limited.
Emissions data is often what’s holding us back from more sustainable approaches to cloud use; it’s often incomplete, it’s not granular, and its primarily retrospective, making it difficult, as users of those services, to know what to do.
GreenOps means maximising the value of your cloud provisions for sustainability as well as typical considerations like performance, security, and cost.
Cloud has the potential to support a more sustainable digital economy, but organisations should see it as the foundation for sustainable best practice and not a panacea.
As cloud computing becomes increasingly integral to how organisations store, process and derive value from data, the issue of digital sovereignty is more salient than ever.