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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

Specifically, we agree that one of the grand challenges of sustainable computing is matching electrical load with the availability of low-carbon electricity. Embodied carbon is due to Scope 3, e.g., manufacturing IT hardware and datacenter construction. Chien’s Arguments Against Embodied Carbon Prof. Therefore, the $1.4B

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. For an example of an unintended consequence, let’s say the result of your optimization project is spare capacity at a cloud provider. But you want to *do something* to help sooner.

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