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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

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
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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. A rough guide if you don’t have any better data is that with no traffic to a system it will be 10% utilization and use 30% of peak power, 25% utilization uses 50% of peak power, and at 50% utilization it uses 75% of peak power.

Energy 52
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 14th, 2018

High Scalability

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 They'll love you even more.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

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. was a system properly localised? Regulatory roadblocks are still being cleared.