Published in Cloud, Environment, IT Energy, Product Engineering. Tags: Cloud, Environment, IT Energy, Product Engineering.
Is it better to replace powerful developer laptops with cloud dev environments? What is the carbon cost of my software development – builds, tests, deploys, code hosting, dev environments?
Published in Environment, Security. Tags: Environment, Security.
It’s quite easy to argue that modern civilization is much more robust and resilient than any ancient society, but consider how much of our critical infrastructure is written in memory unsafe languages!
Published in Environment, IT Energy. Tags: Environment, IT Energy.
Is it a good idea to make predictions about future energy consumption? Even mature public businesses typically only issue earnings guidance for the next quarter. Maybe it’s because predicting the future is hard?
Published in Startups. Tags: Startups.
When I’m talking with a startup founder about a possible investment I’m trying to find out a few things: team, scale, timing, product, developer flow, stickiness.
Published in Data Center Energy, Environment, IT Energy. Tags: Data Center Energy, Environment, IT Energy.
Is cryptocurrency / Bitcoin bad for the environment? In 2019 crypto consumed 70-90 TWh of electricity globally, with 60-70 TWh of that from Bitcoin mining. What that means for carbon emissions depends on where the mining happens.
Published in Cloud, Environment, IT Energy, Product Engineering. Tags: Cloud, Environment, IT Energy, Product Engineering.
Why isn’t carbon aware workload scheduling more common? Data center level scheduling is infeasible, so what are the opportunities for developers to implement more granular functionality?
Published in Data Center Energy, Environment, IT Energy. Tags: Data Center Energy, Environment, IT Energy.
Customers should now be asking their suppliers for the carbon footprint of the software services they buy.
Published in Data Center Energy, IT Energy, Paper notes. Tags: Data Center Energy, IT Energy, Paper Notes.
The methodology is invalid, which the authors acknowledge but ignore. This means the results of this article aren’t particularly useful.
Published in Favourite Books. Tags: Favourite Books.
In 2021 I read 22 books. I track all the books I read on my reading list. Here are the ones I recommend.
Published in Data Center Energy, Environment. Tags: Data Center Energy, Environment.
Using a marginal emissions-based sustainability score incentivizes migrating workloads to a region with a lower marginal emissions factor. The emissions factor for that workload would reduce, but does it incentivize the deployment of new clean energy?
