Hi all,

I want to invite you all to attend our class session for CEE 498B to hear from our guest speaker about Amazon Data Center embodied carbon reduction efforts. I think the subject and speaker will be interesting and it’s a topic relevant to our department and to employment of our students (Amir is a civil engineer).

WHAT: Amir Ehsaei, Sr. Sustainability Engineer (AWS Data Center Engineering for Amazon) speaking on Embodied carbon, and Amazon’s data center efforts

WHEN: Thursday, 30 January 2025 from 1:30 – 3:20 p.m.

WHERE: HUB Room 340

WHY GO: The world will be building MANY data centers in the future and carbon accounting matters – Amir knows what’s going on at Amazon on this front AND he’s a civil engineer by training

RSVP here: https://forms.office.com/r/Y5pbXr44YJ

A few more details

We don’t talk a lot about data centers or greenhouse gas accounting in our department, but they both will play an outsized role in infrastructure over the decades to come. Amir is a registered PE and has a civil engineering PhD from the University of Louisville. I think he represents an area of employment where our students can create big impacts with their UW CEE degree. Hear what he has to say about AWS data centers, embodied carbon in them, Scope 3 emissions, and what Amazon is doing.

Should be a fun time. Stop by on the way over and grab a drink at the HUB Starbucks and enjoy a perk of being here at UW – interesting speakers with great information.