ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

Embodied carbon is due to Scope 3, e.g., manufacturing IT hardware and datacenter construction. 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.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

72 : signals sensed from a distant galaxy using AI; 12M : reddit posts per month; 10 trillion : per day Google generated test inputs with 100s of servers for several months using OSS-Fuzz; 200% : growth in Cloud Native technologies used in production; $13 trillion : potential economic impact of AI by 2030; 1.8

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30