The video for this can be found here https://youtu.be/4X8sY8gR6j0?t=150

1. Circular Economy ICT & Open Source Technologies
……… is the former dependant on the latter?
John Laban 2020
john.laban@opencompute.org
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlaban/
+447710124487
@rumperedis

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3. www.opencompute.org

4. What is this ?
Answer in chat box
OCP vanity free open source cubby server

5. https://youtu.be/tHer0URWUQI?t=22
Explainer video OCP vanity free open source cubby server

6. Ouroboros
Circular Economy
Rediscovering circularity

7. “Practical men who believe themselves to be quite
exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually
the slaves of some defunct economist.”
John Maynard Keynes

8. Gender & economics in the 21st century

9. Commons
Open source technology
collaborative commons
21st century embedded economy model

10. “Commons “ …….. use of word 1860 - 2020

11. “Patent “ …….. use of word 1860 - 2020

13. EU Public Money
& open source technology policies

14. EU Public Money
Policies will demand
Open Source Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuVUzg6x2yo

15. Vendor driven
closed myopic* design
mindset
Closed
Proprietary
User lock-in
monolithic
integration
Cisco
routers
&
software
Proprietary
firmware
obsolescence
Gratuitous
product
differentiation
3 to 5
yrs
Sweet
spot
Power
Suplies

16. Prosumer* driven
open source design
mindset
Openness
Unbundling
Software
Form
hardware
Right
To
repair
disaggregation
dematerialisation
Simplicity
Software
Eats
hardware
Tool less
Open
source
firmware
Hackable
by
anyone

18. Gratuitous Product Differentiation

19. Basic System of Computer Server Power Supply Unit
Mains AC input 12 volt DC output
So why do we need hundreds of different incompatible PSU’s?

20. Gratuitous Product Differentiation for Server Power Supply Units

21. Consume. Collaborate.
Contribute.
Server bezels make people angry with the vendor during repair !!!
Bullshit jobs?

22. Source Kushagra
Vaid @Microsoft

23. Source Kushagra
Vaid

24. Source Kushagra
Vaid

25. OCP Gear
Source Kushagra
Vaid

26. Consume. Collaborate.
Contribute.
2 x TOR Switches
4 x Pluggable optics
86 x PSU’s
208 x 40mm Fans
4 x AC Power Strips
86 x IEC rear power cords
120 x RJ45 rear patch cords
N+1 CRAC units
Access Floor
Cables in floor
OCP eats server rack hardware

27. User Driven Simple Tool less Design and Product Dematerialisation
Power supply units; graphics units; bezels; rails … and more are removed

28. Open Source Technology and 90% Dematerialisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq12-LrCo_4

29. https://www.opencompute.org/circular-economy

30. Circular Economy
OCP air server
hacked for water
Water @ 63°C
for greenhouses
+
Lower customer prices
for cloud services

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33. Killing the myth that being green costs more money
“If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget.
If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.”
Jamie Lerner

34. Open Source Technologies got good enough in the last decade……. John LABAN 2020

35. Supplementary slides follow
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36. learn on…..+1 …..+1 ….+1 ……….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5KfRQJqpPU&t=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooIxHVXgLbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziw-wK03TSw&t=
https://www.atea.com/media/2630/atea_sustainability_focus_2019.pdf
https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-economy/what-is-the-circular-
economy
www.opencompute.org
www.openuk.uk Ask Amanda
John LABAN
07710124487
@rumperedis
john.laban@opencompute.org
November2020

37. Myopic Culture in Data Centre Supply Channel?
“The Myopic cultures, Levitt postulated, would pave the way for a
business to fall, due to the short-sighted mindset and illusion that a
firm is in a so-called 'growth industry’.
This belief leads to complacency and a loss of sight of what
customers want.
It is said that these people focus more on the original product and
refuse to adapt directly to the needs and wants of the consumer.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_myopia

38. ATEA Circular Economy

39. Data
Centre
efficiency
“Hidden”
Open Source
Revolution
2011 2020
Source: Stijn de Kruijf

40. 50% less energy for OCP Servers at idle & EcoDesign includes idle energy in 2020
Source: SK Telecom

41. Consume. Collaborate.
Contribute.