Green computing
summary
Claims that digital services produce ICT ≈3% of global emissions and that Bitcoin's annual electricity rivals Argentina-level consumption land the scale; measurements show optical fiber is ~10,000× more efficient than 4G and a typical device has 80% of its footprint in manufacturing. Concrete actions include calculating footprints, compensating (example: ~10,000 kg CO2/year), choosing greener data centers, shrinking payloads (webp, compression, caching), trimming libraries, and measuring execution time to cut runtime and energy.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:20Introduction
- 4:55Digital emissions
- 10:20Drupal
- 14:27Data explosion
- 21:55Developers are lazy
- 25:45Solutions
- 32:40Carbon footprint
- 37:56English proverb
- 44:56Cold standard compensation
- 45:38What you can do
- 48:31Network
- 50:36Device
- 51:23Software
- 52:52Energy use
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