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Make architecture decisions across the whole estate, with the carbon, energy, water and waste trade-offs visible.
Eleven modules across six layers: hardware and devices, infrastructure, platforms, data and AI foundations, applications, and governance and observability. The course also covers assessment and measurement, and ends with a capstone Green Architecture Blueprint.
8h 15m
11
30 question
80%
Certification
Green and Efficient Architect
How the course works
Six layers, one estate
Silicon to screen, with governance and measurement running across all of them, so AI sits in context.
Worked answers in every exercise
Refresh payback, region placement, cluster utilization, lifecycle policy, routing and payload, each with a solution to check against.
A capstone that assembles the modules
The Blueprint is built from the artefacts produced in the earlier exercises.
What this course helps with
Know which layer the impact is on
Region, refresh cycle, utilization, retention, routing and payload sit at different layers, and effort spent on the wrong one returns little.
Name the dimension a decision displaces
New devices reduce in-use energy and add embodied carbon; a cleaner grid may be water-stressed. The course makes the trade explicit.
Produce a blueprint that traces
Every decision linked to a rated hotspot and a measurement row, rather than a list of good practices.
Who this is for
- Solution, enterprise, cloud and platform architects
- Senior engineers moving into architecture roles
- Technical leads responsible for estate-wide decisions
- Architecture experience assumed; no sustainability background required
Related courses:
Pair with SCI for AI Practitioner if you also need to produce the underlying measurements.
What you will work with
The refresh calculation
Embodied cost of replacement against annual in-use saving, and the conditions that override the result.
The region decision
Carbon, water, latency, data sovereignty and cost weighed together, with the trade stated.
The Blueprint template
Assessment, measurement plan, reduction register and governance wiring, each traceable to an exercise.
What you will be able to do
Course Lessons
The full course
01
Why Water, and Why You
Software feels dry, but the buildings it runs in use water for cooling, the electricity it consumes was made using water, and the hardware was manufactured with it. This module shows those three connections and closes the gap between the people who can see the water and the people who change the software.
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02
The Four Layers: building, electricity, hardware, and the stress conversion
This module gives the three ways software uses water their proper names, as the draft SWI specification uses them, and adds a fourth layer that converts litres into how much each litre matters. It ends with the only line of arithmetic in the course.
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03
Consumption and Withdrawal: used up vs borrowed
Water figures come in two kinds, and confusing them is the most common mistake in reading them. This module teaches the distinction between water used up and water borrowed and returned, and the rule that the two are never added together.
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04
Reading a Water Number
This module teaches no calculations. It teaches how to look at any water figure, whether a provider report, a news headline or a colleague’s slide, and know what it does and does not say.
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05
Stress-Adjusted Water: a liter is not a liter
The same liter counts for more where water is scarce and for less where it is plentiful. This module turns that idea into arithmetic using a published factor per place, giving the conversion layer its full treatment at foundation depth.
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06
Small Things That Save Water
The earlier modules built a vocabulary; this one turns it into actions small enough to take this week, organised by role. None of them needs a water meter, a budget or permission to run a project.
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07
Final Assessment
A final assessment of 12 questions - 80% to pass, 30 minutes, retake available.
Final Assessment
Assessment & Certification
Time to complete