Green Data Centres: Data at Scale, Impact at Zero?
As technology scales, data centres quietly contribute more and more to the climate crisis. While estimates vary, the tech industry generates roughly 2–3% of global emissions
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read moreBridging The Gap - Brigning Sustainability to SRE
Change is inevitable. It requires that your organisation’s codebase is sustainable and you are able to change all the things you ought to change, safely, and can do so for the lifespan of your product. That’s where SRE’s come into play. There is another uncovered sustainability aspect to software and platforms, which this blog post will dive into and show how SREs should extend their scope by one metric.
read moreFollow the Sun: Greening the IT Landscape, One Sunrise at a Time
“Follow the Sun” sounds like ambiguous guidance from Yoda. It is also:
read moreEnergy Proportionality and the Promise of Greener Systems
The cloud is just someone else’s computer.
read moreA Christmas Tree Carbon Story
My partner LOVES Christmas time. The lights, the markets, finding the biggest tree (then carrying that son-of-a-gun home), the city, the jumpers, the mugs, the themed socks… Actually, to put it into perspective, when moving to the Netherlands, 2 of our 10 boxes were solely for Christmas decorations.
read moreBeyond the Code: Carbon Impact of Large Language Models (LLMs)
I’m sure you’ve heard of ChatGPT, Copilot, or any of the other many (many, many, many) AI tools hitting the tech scene. But something a little more nuanced is coming to light–and that’s the environmental costs. I mean, ‘L’ in LLM doesn’t exactly stand for ’low-impact’.
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