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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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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

Chien’s argument: Embodied carbon numbers are disproportionately large Rebuttal: Large embodied carbon numbers are reported by companies who have set public goals to reach net zero emissions by 2030. Hence, significant additional investments into capacity and energy storage would be needed to match a fab’s daily load.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is fecund. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. changelog ). Do you like this sort of Stuff?