Watt's the Best Time to Compute? Google's Road to the Edelman Award

About this episode

This episode discusses Google's innovative system for managing energy and computing resources in data centers, which is a finalist for the 2026 Franz Edelman Award.

This latest episode in the mini-series highlighting the 2026 Franz Edelman Award finalist featues members of the team from Google , whose project is advancing a new approach to managing energy and computing resources across the company's global data center network. Data centers power the digital services we rely on every day, but they also require enormous amounts of energy. To address this challenge, Google developed a first-of-its-kind system that intelligently shifts flexible computing workloads across both time and location to take advantage of cleaner energy sources. In this episode, we'll hear more about how this innovative system works and the impact it's having.

Topics covered

• energy management
• computing resources
• data centers
• clean energy
• innovation

Keywords

• Google
• Edelman Award
• energy management
• data centers
• computing workloads
• clean energy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google

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