Open Source in Finance Forum New York 2024

Energy consumption has an increasing impact on financial institutions - in terms of cost, environmental footprint, and available capacity. In 2022, the world’s data centers consumed 1% of the world’s total energy, expected to grow to 8% in the following years. As financial institutions try to continuously innovate, they also incur large energy bills. Financial institutions know their total energy footprint, but lack data that enables them to optimize applications, place them in data centers with lower energy cost or environmental impact, or to make tradeoffs between performance and energy consumption. What they lack is application-level power monitoring. Kepler is a CNCF project founded by Red Hat’s emerging technologies group with contributions from IBM Research and Intel. It is an open source project that captures power metrics across a wide range of platforms, focusing on reporting, reduction and regression. In this talk, powered by a live demo, we will introduce Kepler and show how it helps enterprises understand their energy footprint and improve their IT operations, and how community members can contribute to the project, especially for adding new supported platforms.