Compute Carbon Intensity Measurement

Two Sigma is developing capabilities to measure and reduce the carbon intensity of its compute environment. This involves repurposing IPMI to measure server-level power consumption and integrating with Kubernetes (via Kubelet and Prometheus) to attribute power usage to containerized applications. The goal is to enable more efficient resource utilization, reduce operational costs, and mitigate environmental impact. This post details a case study where a trading engineering team leveraged a routine server refresh to reconfigure their resources in a way that meaningfully reduces power consumption while maintaining performance, consolidating deployments onto denser hardware configurations and reducing absolute power consumption by 66%.