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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. In Taiwan, specifically, there are land availability limitations and construction pauses during the typhoon season. Chien’s argument: It costs only $1.4B 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. The carbon footprint of a large rack mounted server is order-of-magnitude a ton of carbon a year. But you want to *do something* to help sooner.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. ’ Before MovableType, other personal blogging platforms were available such as Geocities , Blogger & Open Diary.

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