{"id":447,"date":"2020-11-11T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/?p=447"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:27:21","slug":"shining-a-light-on-cloud-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Shining a light on cloud maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cloud &#8211; just another one of those things you often hear about but don&#8217;t really care about. That is, until it stops working for a few hours and you&#8217;re stuck in the supermarket with a cart full of groceries, unable to pay by ATM-card and not carrying any cash. That is what happened to me at Albert Heijn a few weeks ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More and more services that are essential to our society operating smoothly are stored in the cloud. It  is growing and growing and already responsible for about 2% of our world-wide energy demand. If it doesn&#8217;t break down under its own weight, it may eventually become a climate hazard. That is, until Georgios Andreadis came along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his master&#8217;s thesis, he researched how to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tudelft.nl\/en\/stories\/articles\/firm-ground-for-cloud-datacentre-planning\/\">capacity planning for cloud data centres <\/a>into the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. As a result, these centres may be able to continue to meet the ever-growing computational demands of businesses, scientists and governments, while increasing their efficiency and environmental sustainability. Next time society doesn&#8217;t crumble, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be grateful for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud &#8211; just another one of those things you often hear about but don&#8217;t really care about. That is, until it stops working for a few hours and you&#8217;re stuck in the supermarket with a cart full of groceries, unable to pay by ATM-card and not carrying any cash. That is what happened to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/?p=447\" class=\"more-link\">Lees verder <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Shining a light on cloud maintenance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geen-categorie","category-wetenschap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Simplifaai-2-GROEN-2000x1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplifaai.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}