Niki Manoledaki is a Staff Platform Engineer at Grafana Labs, A CNCF Ambassador and Green Software Foundation Champion, and a core maintainer of Project Kepler. We explore the recent rewrite of Project Kepler and the challenges of measuring sustainability in the era of AI.

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Links from the interview

• Project Kepler on GitHub

• CNCF Blog: Kepler, re-architected: Improved power accuracy and a community call to action!

• Green Software Foundation

• "Building Green Software" by Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, Sara Bergman

• Grafana Labs Blog: How Grafana Labs switched to Karpenter to reduce costs and complexities in Amazon EKS

• GreenIO New York Conference

• AI Energy Score Initiative on Hugging Face

• Dr Sasha Luccioni's:  Power hungry processing: Watts driving the cost of AI deployment?