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Start a green software and green AI program, and grow it beyond the first team.
An adoption journey in seven steps: map the footprint, build awareness and choose a first portfolio, set a baseline, apply patterns, embed checks in delivery, run reduction campaigns, and keep it going with a dashboard and a governance rhythm.
5h 15m
7
30 question
80%
Certification
Scaling Green AI and Software
How the course works
One organization throughout
Northbridge appears in every module, with the same estate and the same numbers, so the steps connect into a single journey.
Patterns from a curated catalog
Each reduction has a precondition, a trade-off and a verification step, and is applied through a select–apply–verify loop.
A workbook you fill in
Seven steps that assemble into an adoption plan for your own organisation, each with a worked solution to check against.
What this course helps with
Awareness that holds
Understand the four dimensions (carbon, energy, water and waste) and where they're created across the estate, so the conversation starts from facts.
A first step that is small enough to take
A portfolio of a few workloads chosen on materiality, tractability and evidence, rather than a programme that tries to cover everything.
Work that continues after the launch
A cadence, an owner and a dashboard, so the program does not depend on one person’s attention — with reduction campaigns that cut consumption, and usually the bill for it, in the same pass.
Who this is for
- Anyone starting or scaling a green program, in any role
- Product, design, engineering, ML and data, platform and infrastructure teams
- Procurement and governance colleagues joining the effort
- No sustainability background required; Modules 3–6 assume familiarity with delivery tooling
Related courses:
Already measuring confidently and want depth on one layer? The practitioner courses go further on measurement, architecture and operations.
What you will work with
The portfolio test
Three questions (material, tractable, evidenced) for choosing the first workloads, and what to say to teams not in the first cohort.
A completed baseline row
Unit of work, rate and total, boundary, data tier and date, filled in for one service.
The campaign design
Scope, baseline, quality bar and the go/no-go stated before the work begins.
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.
module-01
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.
module-02
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.
module-03
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.
module-04
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.
module-05
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.
module-06
07
Final Assessment
A final assessment of 12 questions - 80% to pass, 30 minutes, retake available.
Final Assessment
Assessment & Certification
Time to complete