Episode
Watt's the Best Time to Compute? Google's Road to the Edelman Award
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- Resoundingly Human
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- Apr 12, 2026
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- 1487
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Summary
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.