How about starting with getting rid of all the bloated web-based crap... I'm strongly against inefficient software for different reasons, but if stuff like this can have an effect beyond the virtue-signaling bureaucracy it's likely to become instead, maybe it's a good thing.
Green Software Foundation's Software Carbon Intensity Spec Becomes ISO Standard
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#13Why do we need such a thing? Operating cost is proportional to energy, carbon emissions are also proportional to energy. Making your information systems cost less also makes them emit less carbon. The information industry has a clear and direct economic incentive to reduce carbon intensity, and all large operators do catalog and reduce GHG emissions.
And what about technology which is controversial, causing a lot of discussions online (all those people spending energy to post comments…)?
I think cost has nothing to do with it.
Re: Green Software Foundation's Software Carbon Intensity Spec Becomes ISO Standard
#14Why do we need such a thing? Operating cost is proportional to energy, carbon emissions are also proportional to energy. Making your information systems cost less also makes them emit less carbon. The information industry has a clear and direct economic incentive to reduce carbon intensity, and all large operators do catalog and reduce GHG emissions.
There is a lack of political will to do the screamingly obvious thing and put a price on carbon emissions.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a lack of political will to do the screamingly obvious thing and put a price on carbon emissions.
it's also insufficient. we need businesses to take responsibility for the full product lifecycle, including the waste steam, recycling of consumer packaging, etc.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
because the cheapest energy is not necessarily the cleanest
That may be, but the awkward method used by this initiative says that PPAs don't count, so if you literally spin off a subsidiary to build a solar array for your new datacenter, and use a PPA to buy all of its output, that doesn't matter and you are supposed to use the regional grid carbon intensity. It is hard to imagine why anyone would adopt that method.
If the data centre entirely off-grid, the SCI permits using your own grid intensity factors.
I'm not clear on the scenario where the solar is directly connected to the data centre 'behind the meter', or if there are other forms of peak shaving, while still drawing on the grid when needed - does anyone else care to comment/clarify the standards intentions there in terms of incentives?