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Green Software Development
The Green Software Foundation promotes sustainability as a core priority for software teams, just as important as performance, security, cost and accessibility.
Fantastic learning on the environmental impacts of GenAI
Recently I attended the conference “AI and the Environment: Sustaining the Common Good” at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, and it was a fantastic gathering of prominent thinkers on the topic.
Part 2: How much of hyperscaler emissions is under-reported using RECs?
Bloomberg published a worthwhile article about tech companies using unbundled RECs to claim lower emissions than actual in their sustainability reports. Way lower in the case of Microsoft.
Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol accounting for RECs prevents transparency
This month brings the report from The Guardian that greenhouse gas emissions from the big tech companies’ owned data centers are 662% higher than reported.
Nuclear power is additional low carbon electricity
Do you think that carbon-free power from nuclear generation makes possible data center growth that would otherwise be impossible? Amazon and Microsoft are investing in new nuclear generation, and it may be their only path to fully powering their growing data center fleet without growing greenhouse gas emissions.
Hyperscaler Sustainability Scorecard from SDX Central
The Hyperscaler Sustainability Scorecard published one year ago by SDX Central is some excellent reporting on the ESG of the Big 3 cloud computing brands.
Data Center Environmental Impact Analysis from 8 Billion Trees
8 Billion Trees published a good analysis of data center environmental impact in May. It covers the essentials of data enter environmental impact and includes fun calculators.
Energy Transition blog from Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart
Welcome our newest group member, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart. Eduardo publishes a fantastic blog, “Musings from California – the Energy Transition.
The Green Software Foundation
Green Software Foundation is a remarkable organization changing the culture of software…
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How many gallons of drinking water does a hyperscale data center use up in one day…