Savannah Goodman

Climate Solutions Lead, Google · 1 appearance on the record.

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Savannah Goodman is the Data and Software Climate Solutions Lead for Global Infrastructure at Google, focusing on grid decarbonization. She previously managed commercial and utility-scale energy storage products at Tesla and served as VP of Product and Modeling at a virtual power plant startup.

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What the tape says about how Savannah argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Goodman: Google TPU v4 is twice as energy-efficient as TPU v3
“So just one example TPU version four is actually twice as efficient as TPU version three. So that means, you know, the amount of machine learning compute that we can run is substantially more for less energy.”
Savannah Goodman Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 49:21 How AI is being used in energy, right now

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Assertion Supported
Goodman: Google TPU v4 is twice as energy-efficient as TPU v3
“So just one example TPU version four is actually twice as efficient as TPU version three. So that means, you know, the amount of machine learning compute that we can run is substantially more for less energy.”
Savannah Goodman Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 49:21 How AI is being used in energy, right now
Assertion Partly supported
Goodman: Google delivers 5x more compute per unit of electricity versus 2018
“And just to add another kind of metric there compared to, Five years ago, we are now delivering the same amount of compute, or sorry, five times the amount of compute for the same amount of electricity.”
Savannah Goodman Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 49:39 How AI is being used in energy, right now
Insight
Goodman: Immediate 10x moonshots fail for core decarbonization use cases
“I think one of the things we've learned at Google is jumping right to the, like, 10 X solution doesn't always work. We have X for that. That's kind of the moonshot factory, but for a lot of the sort of core use cases, it's really important to define a bite-siz…”
Savannah Goodman Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 1:02:08 How AI is being used in energy, right now
Assertion Supported
Goodman: Google reached 66% carbon-free energy across global data centers in 2021
“And so in twenty-twenty-one, we reached 66% carbon-free energy across our global data centers, and that actually includes five data centers that are operating at or near 90% carbon-free.”
Savannah Goodman Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 36:52 How AI is being used in energy, right now

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How AI is being used in energy, right now Jun 22, 2023 20m
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