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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia.

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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. Google’s carbon data for each region is based on an accumulation of hourly location based consumption based carbon intensity measurements (sourced from ElectricityMaps) over a year.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. the term "smartphone dependence" has been coined to describe folks without other ways to access the increasing fraction of essential services only available through the internet. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S.,