Re:Start calculating digital carbon emissions in 5 minutes w...
by jauntywundrkind on Saturday June 08, 2024 @06:45PM
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This project doesn't seem to care whether I'm sending data to someone else right near us-east-1 or whether I'm sending data to Australia. The energy costs will be very very different.
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Re:Start calculating digital carbon emissions in 5 minutes w...
by jauntywundrkind on Friday June 14, 2024 @03:40PM
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Shout out to Hammers, Hurricanes, and HTML, a talk that happened today at Future of Frontend from Astro developer Ben Holmes that goes deep into what this model is saying. https://www.youtube.com/live/29wHaG7eVPM?si=O4_S-F8TYKpRJLMP...
Not only is it measuring bytes blindly, it's counting rating your energy use as a % of bytes sent, versus total data-center consumption period. As though every byte is equally responsible for the total computing done. Absurdly wrongheaded model.
It's not just attributing bytes