Category: Environment
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Overestimating data center public health costs
Energy & carbon aren’t the only environmental impacts of computing, but are the public health impacts overstated?
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When security & sustainability meet: don’t try to change user behavior
Security purists are as bad as the sustainability ideologues, and they don’t help anyone.
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Network energy use not directly proportional to data volume
It is commonly assumed that data volume and network energy consumption are directly proportional, a notion perpetuated by numerous studies and media coverage. This paper challenges this assumption.
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Is carbon the right metric for developers to optimize?
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?
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Measuring website energy consumption via browser profiling
Firefox 104 introduces power consumption measurement in the profiler. What does this mean for analyzing website energy consumption?
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Paper notes – Mitigating Curtailment and Carbon Emissions through Load Migration between Data Centers
This is a good paper that makes valid points about the possibilities of migrating flexible IT workloads, however it makes classic assumptions I see in most papers that discuss this topic.
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Approaches to calculating network / website energy and carbon
Website carbon calculators are not very accurate, especially if they only use data transfer as the metric.
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Sustainable dev environments in the cloud
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?
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Roman Climate Optimum and energy system resiliency
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!
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Predictions in energy and computing
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?