In this video, Pete Hill and Matt Hawkins discuss the intersection of AI, cloud infrastructure, and environmental sustainability. They examine the growing carbon footprint of the cloud industry, driven by AI’s demand for computing power. The duo explores sustainable energy sources like hydro, solar, and wind for data centres and the potential of edge computing networks to reduce emissions. They highlight the importance of regulations in promoting eco-friendly practices and introduce CUDO, a platform facilitating the global sale of sustainable cloud services. CUDO enables companies with renewable energy-powered data centres to offer their excess capacity, promoting environmental responsibility and cost-effective computing resources.
With 15+ years experience within the cloud industry, Pete built and managed a 150-strong partner channel that included over 30% of the top 100 managed service providers and value added resellers, in the UK. He is again leading strategic partnerships at Cudo Ventures, a highly experienced team of entrepreneurs and developers, driving high-performance GPU computing for AI and web 3.0 cloud adoption.
Matt is a tech entrepreneur, Building and founding C4L in 2000 which was one of the fastest growing ISP's in the UK & winner of many fast growth awards including Times Tech Track 100, Deloitte UK Top 50, Deloitte EMEA Fast 500 & many more. C4L provided approx 1% of the UK’s internet infrastructure and was one of the largest private networks in the UK including their own data centre & scaled to over 1% of the UK's internet traversing it. Customers included Government, FTSE 250, Top 100 VARs, ISPs, Resellers & SMB's. C4L was acquired in 2016 so Matt could start Cudo to make better use of the world's computing capacity.
