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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

Energy 98
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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. The marginal emisions in real time can be obtained via a commercial service from Watttime , but is not freely available to a cloud end user trying to deciding what to run where, when, to minimize carbon.

Energy 52
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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. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. For instance, GSMA predicts that 5G will only comprise half of connections by 2030.