Blogs

Researchers need to be more careful about the inputs into their models. Overestimates undermine the goal of reducing the environmental impact of IT.

The GHG Protocol needs to evolve to better represent the complexity of how energy markets work.

There is a correlation between the training time and energy consumption, but that doesn’t mean there is a correlation between training time and carbon emissions.

Data centers consuming too much energy at peak times - can’t we just turn them off?

In October 2022 I started a DPhil (PhD) in Engineering Science researching sustainable computing at the University of Oxford.

Puritan value judgments don’t help and any analysis based on concepts of digital sobriety or arbitrary definitions of waste should be rejected.

With the grid mix constantly changing, what needs to happen to energy systems to reach the goal of 24/7 carbon free energy? Google has funded two studies to find out.

Developers need metrics that are consistent and easy to optimize, but carbon intensity varies in time and space. So when is it a useful metric for developers to consider?

Firefox 104 introduces power consumption measurement in the profiler. What does this mean for analyzing website energy consumption?

Website carbon calculators are not very accurate, especially if they only use data transfer as the metric.