What does sustainable IT really mean? And how much impact does software have on global carbon emissions?

In this episode of Studio Ab Ovo, Martijn Meerman talks with Edwin Visser, Platform Development Manager at Ab Ovo, about the hidden environmental impact of IT infrastructure, software development, cloud computing, and AI.

The conversation goes far beyond the obvious image of energy-hungry data centers. Edwin explains how carbon emissions are already created during the manufacturing and transport of hardware, why the location of data centers matters, and how programming languages themselves can dramatically influence energy consumption.

One of the most surprising insights? The same software can require up to 70 times more energy depending on the coding language used.

Together they explore:

• Why the IT sector already produces emissions comparable to the aviation industry
• The concept of “embodied carbon” in hardware
• How operational efficiency can reduce emissions by a factor of ten
• Why efficient software architecture matters more than ever
• How Ab Ovo’s Eco Logic Platform generates optimized C code for greener software
• The hidden energy waste of “zombie workloads”
• Why simply turning systems off can have a massive impact
• How measuring energy use on a function level helps optimize applications
• The relationship between AI growth and rising energy demand

Edwin also shares practical examples from real customer environments, including how one configuration change reduced CPU usage by 90% for a single process running 86,000 times per day.

This episode offers an eye-opening look into the future of sustainable software engineering and shows how architecture, design and code can play a crucial role in reducing carbon emissions worldwide.

If you work in IT, software development, cloud infrastructure, sustainability, or digital transformation, this conversation will change the way you think about technology.

🎧 Listen now and discover how greener software starts with smarter choices.

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